PITTSBURGH -- A University of Pittsburgh study found that women who become pregnant during the spring have a higher risk of delivering premature babies.

Researchers analyzed more than 75,000 deliveries over a 10-year period.

The pre-term birthrate for women conceiving in spring was 9.2 percent.
Women who conceived in summer had the lowest rate of premature births at 8.4 percent.

Researchers are now looking at such factors as sunlight exposure, dietary changes and environmental allergens in efforts to out why.

hmmm interesting,,,

That's really interesting...

That's interesting. I would have never guessed that some of it is due to the time of year.

interesting

I got pregnant in April (years ago) and I delivered 10 weeks prematurely.

Pfft...I conceived Preston in late March and he was going to end up being late! He wasn't budging :teehee

I concieved ds in late spring and he was 11 days late. I guess I was in the lucky 90.8% :D

IDK, it's less than a 1% difference. It's not really that big of a difference.

I conceived Ethan in the beginning of August and he was trying to come out at 22 weeks.

I was a preemie conceived in April. Wow.

But I think mine was more due physical/emotional problems with the CP because she had two preemies (that just happened to be spring-conceived).

Just sharing. Interesting study.