{"id":25,"date":"2014-11-12T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T15:46:55","slug":"halloween-versus-valentines-day-their-weird-affect-on-giving-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Halloween versus Valentines Day. Their weird affect on giving birth."},"content":{"rendered":"

Do this little experiment.<\/h3>\n
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  1. Look at the records of 1,676,217 births in the United States that occurred around\u00a0Valentines Day<\/strong>\u00a0(1 wk before through 1 wk after).<\/li>\n
  2. Compare these birth records to 1,809,304 births in the United States that occurred around\u00a0Halloween Day<\/strong>\u00a0(1 wk before through 1 wk after).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Do this for 11 years. Then look at the data and something totally weird appears (Study is here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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    What Happens On Valentines Day<\/strong>
    \nThere was a sudden increase of 3.6% in the number of spontaneous births, and a 12.1% increase in planned births (cesarean births).<\/p>\n

    For some reason, on that holiday itself, regardless of whether moms were overdue, not yet due, or hitting their due date on the nose, 3.6% more were born.<\/p>\n

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    What Happens On Halloween Day
    \n<\/strong>Exactly the opposite effect. A large and sudden drop in spontaneous births occurred on that day, to the tune of 5.3%!<\/p>\n

    Something about this day made it less likely that moms would birth a baby, regardless of where they were in their final trimester. The decrease in planned births was much larger too (16.9%).<\/p>\n

    I totally understand the “planned birth” aspect. Unless you have toxemia or other emergency situation, having a c-section is likely going through the new baby drive-thru (my son was a c-section baby). So if you get to choose the birth date of your child, Halloween is associated with negative Jason, Elm Street nightmare connotations … and Valentines Day is associated with hearts and flowers and Be Mine candies and plump little cherubic archers.<\/p>\n

    You vote NAY on the scary day and YEA on the day of love.<\/p>\n

    But the spontaneous birth thing? Why on Earth would it be that something as arbitrary like the positive vs negative connotation our culture arbitrarily assigned to two holidays make a difference?<\/p>\n

    The numbers here are so large that you have to assume that the effect is real (p < 0.0001 for you research statistics nerds). My guess is that even subtle emotions can be powerful — powerful enough to hasten or hinder something as seemingly inevitable as the onset of a baby. In other words, our subjective feelings have objective consequences making them just as valid, just as real, just as compellingly consequential as a new born baby.<\/p>\n

    Totally surprising. And yet also, not really that surprising at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Do this little experiment. Look at the records of 1,676,217 births in the United States that occurred around\u00a0Valentines Day\u00a0(1 wk before through 1 wk…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kBci-p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}