Can I be 10 months pregnant?

A full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks long, which equals 10 months. Yet commonly, people talk about pregnancy as being nine months long.”

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Is it possible to have a 10 month pregnancy?

If your pregnancy lasts more than 42 weeks, it is called post-term (past due). This happens in a small number of pregnancies. While there are some risks in a post-term pregnancy, most post-term babies are born healthy. Your health care provider can do special tests to check on the health of your baby.

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What happens if you are 10 months pregnant?

Shortness of breath, heartburn, and constipation usually improve when the fetus drops. But the position of the fetus lower in your pelvis causes frequent urination (peeing) and trouble holding urine (pee). Your cervix will begin to open — dilate — to prepare for delivery.

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Is 11 months pregnancy possible?

“It's highly unlikely that you would have a pregnancy that would go beyond 10 or 11 months. Highly unlikely…”

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What is the longest a woman has been pregnant?

The longest pregnancy ever recorded was 375 days long (17 months). In comparison most women are pregnant for 280 days.

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I'm pregnant. How should I feed my 10 month old?

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How many child can a woman give birth in her life?

According to research, a woman can have somewhere around 15 to 30 babies in her lifetime.

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How far overdue can a pregnancy go?

Between 41 weeks and 41 weeks and six days, a pregnancy is called late-term. When a pregnancy reaches 42 weeks and beyond, it's postterm. Late-term and postterm pregnancy can raise the risk of some health problems, including: Larger than average birth size (fetal macrosomia).

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Can you be 9 months pregnant?

Yes! The end of your pregnancy is in sight now, and the big day approaches. Keep in mind that your little one isn't technically considered full term and ready for birth until 39 weeks and that only about 1 in 20 women give birth on their exact due date.

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Is it possible to be pregnant for 2 years?

There is no evidence that such pregnancies exist, and doctors use the term cryptic pregnancy to describe cases where women don't realize they are pregnant, either for psychological or hormonal reasons.

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Is 9 months pregnant normal?

Yes! You're in your last month of pregnancy, and your baby could arrive at any time. Most women give birth between weeks 38 and 42, but very few babies arrive exactly on their due date.

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What is the longest labor in history?

WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish woman lay nearly upside down in labor for 75 days to save the lives of her two premature babies after the first of three fetuses growing inside her was born prematurely and died.

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Is pregnancy 9 or 10 months?

Pregnancy is counted from the first day of your last menstrual period. This means an extra 2 weeks are counted at the beginning of your pregnancy when you aren't actually pregnant. So pregnancy lasts 10 months (40 weeks)—not 9 months—because of these extra weeks.

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Can twins have different dads?

But you may be left wondering: Can twins have different fathers? The answer is yes, but only in cases in which they're fraternal, as identical twins form from a single egg/sperm combination and thus cannot have different fathers.

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What is a hidden pregnancy?

A cryptic pregnancy (or stealth pregnancy) is when a pregnant person doesn't know they're pregnant. In some cases, a person may only realize they're pregnant because labor begins. Most people realize they're pregnant somewhere between four and 12 weeks of pregnancy.

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Can you be 7 months pregnant and not know?

No symptoms.

For some women, the physical tip-offs of pregnancy, like weight gain, morning sickness, heartburn, or fatigue, don't happen. Or they're so mild that a woman just doesn't notice them. Depending on their body type, “it's reasonable for a woman to make it to 30 weeks without looking pregnant,” Cackovic says.

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Is pregnancy 9 months or 12?

Is pregnancy nine or 10 months long? Your 40 weeks of pregnancy are counted as nine months.

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What causes baby to be overdue?

You are more likely to be overdue if you are obese, have never given birth before or if you're over the age of 30. Your midwife or doctor will check that both you and your baby are healthy by giving you ultrasound scans and checking your baby's movement and heartbeat.

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How early can a baby be born?

In general, infants that are born very early are not considered to be viable until after 24 weeks gestation. This means that if you give birth to an infant before they are 24 weeks old, their chance of surviving is usually less than 50 percent. Some infants are born before 24 weeks gestation and do survive.

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How do you know if your water broke?

When your water breaks you might experience a sensation of wetness in your vagina or on your perineum, an intermittent or constant leaking of small amounts of watery fluid from your vagina, or a more obvious gush of clear or pale yellow fluid.

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Who has the most kids in the world?

Valentina Vassilyev and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.

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What is the oldest mother to give birth?

Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. In both cases the children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs.

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Can a baby have many fathers?

Although this is quite rare it can happen and it's called superfetation. Two babies are conceived from separate acts in two different cycles. These babies can be from the same father or two different men. When heteropaternal superfecundation occurs, the babies are from different fathers.

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Which parent decides twins?

However, for a given pregnancy, only the mother's genetics matter. Fraternal twins happen when two eggs are simultaneously fertilized instead of just one. A father's genes can't make a woman release two eggs.

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Can twins be born days apart?

For the most part, twins and multiples share the same birthday. However, depending on the time of day the babies are born and how long the timespan is between each baby's birth, twins can be born on different days.

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What are polar twins?

Polar twins. Polar twins share the same chromosomes from their birthing parent, but they get different chromosomes from their non-birthing parent. This is because they're created from a single egg but two separate sperm.

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