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Is the 33rd Week of Pregnancy a Marker of a Full-Term Birth?
The West Virginia study only looked at the preferred outcome of a full-term birth. So we were able to ask, is this inflection point that they had attributed to the 33rd week of gestation, in fact, a marker of being 33 weeks into a process? Or is it something related to being seven weeks away from the end of a process,. Is this a counting forward thing or counting backwards thing? When all of your pregnancies are ending between 32 and 42 weeks, you can separate those out. And so what we were ableto see was that this inflectionpoint actually has nothing to do with being 33 weeks, although that's the most common place to see it. You're very