It seems that no matter how many advances are made by medical science, Mother Nature still has the upper hand in determining outcomes. Most doctors will admit that there are many times through their career when the unexplainable happens with a patient. Some of the doctors will call these events miracles, others will simply say that they are unable to explain the event. Most will agree that there are unknown variables when it comes to dealing with medicine and the human body.

My daughter experienced this when she went into the doctor for a pregnancy test. She had missed her period and had taken a home pregnancy test that came out positive. She went to the doctor and had the official test done and was told that she was indeed pregnant. She scheduled an appointment for later in the month to begin her prenatal care. At that appointment the doctor gave her a pregnancy due date based on his examination as well as the dates my daughter gave him regarding her menstrual cycle. My daughter told him that the pregnancy due date could not be accurate because her husband had been out of the country for a month, and this is when the doctor was saying conception happened. The doctor told her that he was right and that her baby would be born

Throughout her pregnancy my daughter butted heads with the doctor. She and her husband had placed their small house up for sale when they found out they were having a baby and they began building a new one. The location of the new house meant that she would be delivering the baby at a different hospital. I was concerned that the move to the new house was scheduled to occur very close to the pregnancy due date. My daughter told me not to worry because the doctor was wrong and that she was going to have plenty of time to settle into the new house.  She insisted that her pregnancy due date was two weeks later than the doctor told her.

As the plans to relocate continued my daughter found a different doctor that was closer to their new home and the hospital that she would be delivering in. Her records were transferred to the new doctor. My daughter again explained that her pregnancy due date was wrong and that she would be delivering two weeks later. The new doctor disagreed with her and wanted to induce labor when she was two days past the pregnancy due date. She refused and two weeks later she delivered a healthy six and a half pound baby girl. If she had been induced earlier the baby would have been under weight. I was proud of my daughter because she insisted that she knew her own body.