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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The different between a 38-40 week baby is not at all worth the risk of stillbirth to me. [/quote]

Yes, all of this. With one in 160 pregnancies ending in stillbirth, I would take the lowest risk route possible, especially given your age.[/quote]

Really?!?! 1 in 160? Is it really that high? My mom practiced for 30 years and only lost 2 babies in all that time. I can't imagine the numbers being that high. [/quote]

It's kind of scary to me how uninformed people are about stillbirth. [/quote]

Many stats have been calculated on stillbirth using different [b]calculations[/b]. A 2013 study using California data from 2005 found for women age 35 or older, stillbirth rates increase from 5 per 10,000 in week 39 to 10 in week 40 to 15 in week 41 and to 32.5 at week 42 or more (in the under 35 set it was 4, 7, 8.5, and 28 respectively).

That's more like 1 in 2,000 (week 39), then 1 in 1,000 (week 40), then 1 in 650 (week 41), then 1 in 300 by the 42nd week (Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23707677)

But anecdotally it seems there are more stillbirths than that. Maybe because there are more older moms concentrated in DC? So who the hell really knows.[/quote]

^^oops, I meant to say using different data, models, and methods. (hence the discrepancy in the true rate)[/quote]

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