Howlong Do the Docs Typically Let U Go past Your Dute Date??

I agree with most of the responses so far. My doctor always let you go only a week over and I have friends with the gestational diabetes and one of her babies was 11 some pounds. It's due to size of the baby that they induce for that. Nothing to do with age.

Wit my first, they let me go 2 weeks over. With my second they induced me on my due date. With gestational diabetes there is a risk of the baby getting too big. Since my first daughter was over 9 lbs, they were especially concerned. Thank goodness they induced me when they did, he wa already up to 9 lbs. However, I was diet controlling my gd so it was partly up to me to her induced, if I had wanted to wait another week they would have let me.

Most only let you go 1 week past your due date, and I have never heard of a doctor letting you go more than 2 weeks past your due date. With gestational diabetes - this often causes bigger than normal babies... so it sounds normal to that they would not want her to go too far past the due date because babies gain weight fast in the last few weeks and they would not want to baby to get too huge. I dont think it has anything to do with age.

For someone healthy, 42 weeks is generally the norm and after that, they induce. Some aggressive doctors push for earlier inductions. It's a great question to ask your own doctor so that you can set expectations accordingly for you and him or her. If you feel strongly about not being induced before 42 weeks, it's good to know well ahead of time whether or not your doctor will support your decision.

There are many health reasons that would contribute to earlier induction. GD babies tend to be quite large so I would imagine that's why your cousin's time frame would be shorter.

Lots of docs will induce you right after your due date, which is bad practice, but docs prefer a scheduled labor to a spontaneous one often (no getting woken up at 2 am!). You're not actually "overdue" until you're more than 42 weeks. The risks to the baby don't really start increasing until after 42 weeks, and the AVERAGE first time mom goes to 41 weeks and 3 days, so going past your "due date" is normal.

Personally, I would refuse induction if you pass your due date. You can opt for a non-stress test to see how the baby's doing if you want. As long as the baby is healthy, leave it in there until it's ready (as long as it comes on its own before 42 weeks).

Btw, the reason I am anti-induction (unless it's actually medically necessary) is that induction is much more likely to result in a c-section, fetal distress, painful labor, and other complications. Not to say those can't happen in spontaneous labor, of course, but it's proven that they're more common with inductions. So I wouldn't take those risks unless I really needed to, not just because I was technically past my due date (which is just an estimate anyway).

First of all YOU are in control. You do not have to consent to an induction. It really is not the doctor who will "allow" you to stay pregnant, it is whether you will "allow" the doctor to make the decision to induce.

That said, of course, you should listen to the doctor's opinion in making your decision. Each pregnancy is unique and the best decision involves a number of factors, so there is no easy answer.

You can go up to 2 weeks past your estimated due date because a full term pregnancy goes up to 42 weeks. 40 weeks is only an average for several reasons. In a healthy pregnancy, if you induce at 40 weeks but the baby isn't showing signs of being ready yet, the baby could still be born too small and underdeveloped because it needs the full 42 weeks or because the EDD was wrong in the first place.

i was totally healthy and 29 years old. they planned to induce me 1 week after my due date. my water broke the morning before i was scheduled to be induced :)

I had my first when I was 20, they would have let me go one week past my due date. I was scheduled to be induced Monday morning and went into labor Sunday night. :)

Most doctors do not like you going 2 weeks past your due date because babies have trouble thriving after that and the placenta can start to deteriorate. Both my kids were induced, I was only three days past my due date with my second and one day with my first. My doctor scheaduled both of the inductions for the following weekend because I was very uncomfortable.

I didn't have my son until ten days past my due date. I WISH they would have induced me but I had a doctor who wouldn't intervene with "mother nature" unless either mother or child was at risk.
This is something you need to discuss with YOUR doctor.

VERY typical in diabetes pregnancies. It's also typical to csect or induce early. I'd say she must be doing reeeeeeeeeally well for them to let her go full term.

IN GENERAL (no problem pregnancy)? 2-4 weeks. Usually, it's just that the date of conception was off.

With my first, my doc only let me go a week over (and I did) before induction. Second was induced at 39 wks (but I think he was 40, there was confusion over their due date vs. mine- and it was because of large size) and third was induced at 38 wks. The third was purely for scheduling purposes- mine and the doctor's- and it was a big mistake. Hard L&D when it should have been a breeze. This time, I'll only agree to induction if I am over my due date.

I went one week but wanted to waif two. Doc said the placenta was losing viability.

Gestational diabetes can cause a baby to get very large, particularly at the end of pregnancy and thus be much more difficult to deliver. It is a "high risk" situation.

For a normal pregnancy, 42 weeks is normal ---- though most docs will insist that 40 weeks is normal. If you're healthy & the baby is healthy, then 42 weeks is fine. Don't let your doc bully your or emotionally blackmail you into an induction unless it's medically necessary!

My doctor (my second pregnancy) let me go 10 days past my due date and by then I was incisting we induce. It was 100 degrees almost daily and Iwas a house and couldn't stand being pregnant any more. With my next child I went only 4 days before they induced but my amniotic fluid levels were getting low. They would have let her "bake" longer. My doctors said up to 2 weeks past UNLESS there is other issues going on. Congratulations!!!!

Baby size related to gestational diabetes is what is prompting the short wait past your cousins due date, most likely. Unless there are other complications you didn't mention.

Talk to you doctor, do your own research and decide what you are comfortable with, should you go past your date. My doctor and I were on the same page from jump street, and when my firstborn went a week past due date, on that Friday (after non-stress tests on Wednesday and Friday both) he said that if nothing happened over the weekend, he wanted to induce on Monday morning. So if I didn't call him over the weekend, to just meet him at the hospital bright and early Monday morning. Believe me, at that point I was all for inducing! I went into labor in the afternoon the next day. My son was 8 lbs 12 oz. Not huge, but certainly not small. He was delivered 10 days (11 if you consider it was actually past midnight) past his due date. And would have been induced at 12 days past due date.

I was 29 years old and healthy. No complications with the pregnancy.

I think gestational diabetes babies tend to be larger and likely it's due to her age and the diabetes that they consider her higher risk to go beyond her due date. I would ask your doctor what his/her feelings are about how long he/she wants you to go beyond your due date. Please don't think you MUST start with medical induction of your birth though. There are non invasive options you may want to try first like acupuncture.

Yes, actually, I'm surprised the Dr. isn't inducing her sooner. The latest any ethical Dr will go is 42 weeks because it starts to get dangerous for mom and baby after that time, but most induce much sooner. I was just induced last week, and I was right at 40 weeks, on my actual due date.

With gestational diabetes, baby's size and mother's health are typical concerns, which is why the induction.