Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown

Re:Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown by mam2 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @06:11AM (#23974152)

I think the surprising truth is that women may, inconsciously or to some extent, influence the time of birth.

If you look at the distribution of birth per calendar days there are unusual spikes and distributions on special days such as valentines day and i'm not sure this could explain by people deciding to have specifically more sex 9 month before considering the "supposed" randomness of the day of birth aound the 9 month mark..

http://thedailyviz.com/2016/09/17/how-common-is-your-birthda...

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Re:Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown by purple-again on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @07:24AM (#23974561)

I could be wrong but I thought that was explained by c section scheduling. Doctors love nothing more than a tight schedule and birth is anything but that.

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Re:Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown by ballenf on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:13AM (#23976622)

Had a child due around Christmas in our family, and I think both you and parent are both correct. The mother really didn't want to miss Christmas and the doctor offered to schedule an early induction. They didn't offer to induce on Christmas Day, eve or the day after. The baby came a couple days after Christmas.

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Re:Fewer premature babies born since Covid-19 lockdown by mam2 on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:48AM (#24008085)

That would be kinda sad though

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