Can you choose when a baby is born?
Can you choose when a baby is born? In recent years, there's been a trend toward earlier deliveries, as more women are choosing the date they'll give birth. This is known as an elective delivery.
What is the longest pregnancy ever recorded?
But one woman was pregnant for 375 days. When Beulah Hunter's baby girl, Penny Diana, was finally born on the 21st of February in 1945, she was almost 100 days overdue. Although this is the longest pregnancy ever recorded, pregnancies of 42 weeks, which is around ten months, are relatively common.