To cite this page: âAmish Population by State/Province, 2016.â Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. http://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/population-by-state/.
During a first-time birth, a first labor lasts 16 hours on average, however, this can vary tremendously. Labor can be divided into three stages. Stage one, where the cervix dilates, is subdivided into three phases, early, active and transition.
It takes just 38 weeks for a fertilised egg to grow into a baby. However, we say that a human pregnancy is 40 weeks long. This is because doctors calculate the 'estimated date of delivery' of the baby from the beginning of the mother's last menstrual period - on average, two weeks before fertilisation. Only about a third of all fertilised eggs grow into a baby: most are lost before they are three weeks old.