By identifying these women, we may be able to lower the infant mortality rate by intensifying a woman’s prenatal care, and medically manage patients differently based on this new information. Until now, there has been no successful way to determine numerically the risk for preterm delivery.
The second study done in 1993 suggests that there are several factors, including number of previous births, age, and race that influence the length of pregnancy.For Caucasian women who were not first-time moms, their date of delivery averaged 283 days past LMP (three days after Naegele’s rule predicted). This study done in 1990 that showed pregnancy lasted an average of 288 days past a woman’s last menstrual period (LMP) for Caucasian first-time moms.The Mittendorf-Williams rule is based on two studies: Named for Robert Mittendorf, assistant professor and director of health studies in obstetrics and gynecology, and Michelle Williams, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington, the Mittendorf-Williams Rule uses 16 significant factors-maternal age, pre-pregnancy weight, race, college education, alcohol and coffee use, hypertension, and other medical conditions-that provide a more accurate way of dating pregnancy and identifying whether a woman is at risk for preterm delivery. This advanced due date calculator utilizes the Mittendorf-Williams rule, which factors in more info about you and your pregnancy to provide more accurate results.
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