Re: 40+ weeks and counting

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While the placenta may not function as well after 42 weeks, to say that it can't live would be incorrect. And some babies will do just fine going past 42 weeks, just as some will do fine being born at 35, 36, 37 weeks.

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Suzanne S. Powell
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