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.
Gestation period, the duration of pregnancy, in humans being about 266 days (38 weeks) from the time of fertilization until birth 3.  266 days is the average gestation period for humans from conception to birth 4. End of Week 38. (266 Days from Conception) - Estimated birth date. 5.