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Originally Posted by Nice_Nick
(Post 20099572)
Never heard this before. My wife is black and with both our children went the maximum 2 weeks overdue.
I suspect it's fiction.
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Obviously it's fiction if you haven't heard of it! You know everything that can be known!
Those poor idiots at the The National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Institute of Health, must have forgotten the rule that if you haven't heard of it, it can't be true, so they published the below in their ignorance (see abstract):
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Maternal parity, age, and race were found to be the most important variables determining the length of human gestation. Multiparous women, women aged < 19 or > 34 years, and
black women were found to have shorter gestations than primiparous women, women aged 19 to 34 years,
or white women."
I'll include the link to these deluded fools and their "science"
Predictors of human gestational length
Then that knucklehead Mittendorf, who did the definitive study on calculation of gestational length, also forgot about your omniscience, and so concluded:
"Results indicated that, for first-time Caucasian mothers, an average pregnancy lasts 274 days from conception (approximately 288 days from the last menstrual period).
This research and other studies also show us many other factors influence the length of pregnancy, including: mother?s age, weight,
ethnicity, prenatal care, prenatal nutrition and smoking, number of prior pregnancies, and more.
Mittendorf shows an average pregnancy is 269 days for mothers who?ve given birth before. Non-Caucasian mothers have shorter pregnancies than Caucasian mothers;
for example, African-American women average 266 days." Again, we hear about this "science" Ha! They only need to ask you, knower of all!
Because the WHO defines a post term pregnancy at 41 weeks, this status should be applied earlier to African-American women to make sure their infants are properly monitored for risks that occur when a pregnancy goes on too long. Which is more important, Lord of All Information, the lives and health of infants or a false politically correct assumption based on one piece of anecdotal data?
