feelings of overdue or early delivery....

With taking after your mother, do you take after what happened when she gave birth to YOU, or her general birthing patterns?

With my sis, she was 2 weeks overdue, my sis was posterior (?) and had to have the forcips. It was an incredibly difficult labour. With me, I was 2 days early (luckily as I was due on my sister's 2nd bday!), labour wasn't as bad but still in the day-and-a-half category. Things to look forward to aye?!

emz wrote: With taking after your mother, do you take after what happened when she gave birth to YOU, or her general birthing patterns?

That's a difficult question because there are a lot of other factors. The earliest-born of my siblings (what great English lol!) was brought on because Mum was doing letterbox drops and lots of walking. But with each babe she got more overweight and the babes were then born later and later by dates. A couple of them were two weeks late but still had vernix, indicating they were a little "prem". So it seemed that the bigger she was, the more cooking the babies needed or something.

I was born 2 days early, same as my eldest, but Mum was induced with me so who knows?