• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    First time mothers can spend more than 24 hours in labor, and the longest ever labor recorded is 75 days.

    And do you count the first true contraction as the start? the first signs of dilation? or 6cm dilation? or water breaking?

    If the baby doesn’t change much in the last few days or weeks of pregnancy, is it that different from the baby the moment of birth?

    • sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      for these rare cases id count birth time/date as the time the baby finally became separate. but maybe that’s naive of me…

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        sure but I’m saying that’s the cultural part - just because we do that in our culture doesn’t mean it’s any more correct than another method of counting .

        • sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          sure thats true. culture could count the age infinite possible ways, or even refuse the notion.