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.
Only 4 percent are born on the due date. It is an average calculated across large numbers of pregnant women, and finding that the average length of gestation is 280 days after the first day of the last period.There is nothing magical about the date.nly 4 percent are born on the due date. It is an average calculated across large numbers of pregnant women, and finding that the average length of gestation is 280 days after the first day of the last period.