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Pregnant women control birth to avoid Halloween delivery date!
But they love them some V-Day deliveries … which seems like a better date to conceive rather than deliver, but that’s just me!
(via New Scientist)
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Pregnant women control birth to avoid Halloween delivery date!

But they love them some V-Day deliveries … which seems like a better date to conceive rather than deliver, but that’s just me!

(via New Scientist)

Source: newscientist.com

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    • #halloween
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    • #birth
    • #spooky
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  1. adorkable1291 reblogged this from sciencecenter
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  6. stand-n-deliver reblogged this from dreaminventor and added:
    I haven’t looked into it much and can’t cite sources but I have read a few things suggesting that women can exert some...
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  10. dreaminventor reblogged this from sciencecenter and added:
    DUDE. I WOULD WANT MY CHILD BORN ON HALLOWEEN. I WILL REMEMBER THIS.
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  18. alchemist8 reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    get it on on Valentine’s day, eh?
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  22. baileyfuriosa reblogged this from sciencecenter and added:
    My birthday is October 30th because the doctor asked my mom if she wanted her Cesarean on the 30th or the 31st. I...
  23. aise-eutepeg0 reblogged this from jtotheizzoe
  24. ichlibelife reblogged this from sciencecenter
  25. affordablefriend reblogged this from waltron and added:
    I’m just special.
  26. orbitingfrog reblogged this from sciencecenter and added:
    Women appear to influence delivery dates of their babies. They appear to favour Valentine’s Day and avoid Hallowe’en.
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  32. tornadoquest reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    Once again another example of how superstition rules over reason. Sad.
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