A woman has a one in 20 chance of actually delivering on her due date. But that means anytime during the next two weeks is ripe for conceiving a Millennium Baby, Naples obstetricians say. Around the world, rumblings of Millennium Baby fever are beginning. They fear packed maternity rooms. There are radio contests and World Wide Web sites.
Doctors say a women's due date is pretty arbitrary.
It's calculated assuming a woman ovulates on the 14th day of her cycle. Doctors then calculate the due day 40 weeks from that date. But babies normally are born any time after between 38 and 42 weeks gestation. In that case, there's all of next year. Locally, obstetricians like the spotlight that comes with delivering the first baby of each new year.