RI Kanaka

"Alvin E. Toda" <aet@lava.net> wrote in message
news:1176438903-sch@news.lava.net...
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> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, RI Kanaka wrote:
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>> "Alvin E. Toda" <aet@lava.net> wrote in message
>> news:1176349202-sch@news.lava.net...
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>>> Hate to mention this, but I guess no one has up to
>>> now. It's kind of dangerous for the fetus to travel
>>> to higher altitudes. For example, women who return
>>> home in Peru to higher altitudes often have still
>>> births. I'm not sure how safe is a 6 month fetus,
>>> but I think that the doctor should know about this.
>>> Perhaps a five hour plane ride is not enough to be a
>>> problem?
>>>
>> Up until the 36th week (1 month before expected
>> delivery date) of a normal, uncomplicated pregnancy,
>> air travel is generally okay. Anyone with a
>> complicated pregnancy (eg, pre-term labor, diabetes,
>> hypertension, placental abnormalities, etc.) should
>> not travel by air (or sea, I guess). Definitely run
>> it by your doctor. They do still deliver babies on
>> Kauai, as far as I know, but aren't set up for any
>> "high-risk" pregnancies.
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> Great... but isn't 36 weeks 9 months? You mean 32
> weeks? But wouldn't the practice be to guardband the
> time by about one month, say to the end of 7 months?
>
Human gestation is approx. 280 days (40 weeks) which is usually rounded
off to 9 months (it's a little longer). There are more than 28 days in
a month, 30.416 actually (365/12), so 280/30.416 = 9.2 months