Pregnancy is a beautiful stage in which you wait impatiently to meet your baby. Of course, it is accompanied by a series of symptoms that are annoying. Therefore, it is normal to get impatient as the probable date of delivery approaches.
A pregnancy lasts, on average, 40 weeks. Although pregnancy is considered to have reached term at week 37, there are women who do not give birth until week 42. While a pregnancy that lasts until week 41 is known as a late-term pregnancy, when it reaches week 42 we talk about a post-term or prolonged pregnancy.
There is no specific cause for which a woman attends a postterm pregnancy. However, it is common to exceed the due date when it is the first pregnancy or she has had other past-term pregnancies. Likewise, they are more common if the baby is a boy or if the mother is overweight. It can also happen that the probable date of delivery is miscalculated. In any case, although a postterm baby can be born healthy and without complications, there are certain associated risks that should be known.
