Chances of having baby before due date with 2nd child?

Question

Do you have an increase chance of having your 2nd child sooner than your due date? What is your personal experience? My 1st pregnancy I was 10 days late! I don't want this time.

Answer 1

my 2nd was born 3 weeks ago and she was 8 days early.

Answer 2

I think it is between you and the baby.  My first was 2 weeks early and then my second born 10 weeks ago was 1 week early.  So, you never can tell what your little one has in store for you!

Answer 3

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Anyway, my first was 42 weeks and my second child 42 1/2 weeks. I really wanted to try to go into labor on my own, it just wasn't happening. My third was preterm due to my anemia was so severe it put both me and her in danger. My fourth was also preterm because I had low amnio fluid. They waited as long as they could for his lungs, then he was born. Actually VERY large for his gestation 6lbs 10oz at 35weeks.  I know you don't want to hear someone waited longer after the first baby! I hope you deliver on time with a healthy newborn. Please don't take castor oil if you catch that myth. It only makes you ill. There is a salad (I forget the name) that has a high rate of bringing on labor.  

Good Luck and Congratulations!!

Answer 4

im not sure, i know that they are supposed to come faster once you go into labor tho!

with my first i was 2 days late, or rather he was

with my second, she came only 4 early

with my third, he came 2 weeks early!

i did walk alot tho, so maybe that helped??

Answer 5

all babys do there on thing my first was 2 days early and the second was 2 weeks early.

Answer 6

theres never any telling of when they will come...my daughter was 6 weeks early and my son was a week early, but that because they induced me cause he was big.

Answer 7

my daughter 1st was born at 36 weeks she was 7lbs, she came on her own....guess she was ready! wonder if the second will be the same.

Answer 8

I asked my midwife the same thing when I was 39 weeks pregnant and she said "a lot of women give birth before their due date with their 2nd." Just 4 days before my due date I went into labour and 2 hours after that I gave birth to my lil girl. Good luck.