In the future, and looking back in natural history of our species, humans would have longer gestational periods to almost a whole solar year, but I would love to have labors less painful or easier to deliver (hey, evolution, hurry up). In the next life, I hope pregnancy will be a less problemed subject for not only us men or anyone attracted to pregnant people, also to women and esp. people capable of being pregnant. I certainly don't want to go back to the 1950s with a negative attitude over the fact where babies come from. We're entering a new year, decade, century, millennia, age or epoch: 2022 should be the year where it all begins. And someone mentioned fan fics, like the one had an anime-style sketch of a male doctor invented a painkiller to bring more than simple joy and tested it on a woman in labor dressed in a maid outfit, and she along with himself (I'm reminded of House MD) are under this experimental "erotic-euphoric-ecstasy" drug of a super-orgasm to last a long time. (and to the poster above, my condolences to infertile women and men, miscarriages, stillbirths, complications and infant mortality. I don't believe in legally banning stories I don't like based on the subject, but "It's ok to not like things, it's OK, but don't be a jerk about it, it's OK to not like things, but don't be a jerk about the things you don't like").

@IntoPreggos I doubt most women want longer pregnancies, since they're the ones who get the worst of it.

If anything, advances in the medical fields will provide shorter pregnancies. Even now, a baby born at only 24 weeks has a good chance of surviving as opposed to 20 years ago where most doctors would've given up.

(March 31, 2022, 3:57 pm)No-Paramedic9308 @IntoPreggos I doubt most women want longer pregnancies, since they're the ones who get the worst of it.

If anything, advances in the medical fields will provide shorter pregnancies. Even now, a baby born at only 24 weeks has a good chance of surviving as opposed to 20 years ago where most doctors would've given up.

Of course not, 43-46 weeks of pregnancy will be rather hard on the body, but it's reported to occur in a small minority of pregnancies and require a planned c-section. I read modern humans have (3 months plus?) longer pregnancies but more painful labors, but there was a theory it was worse for shorter and thinner hips of Neanderthal women to easily deliver a child, something on the lines of evolution benefited Cro-Magnons descended from Neanderthals and later came the Homo Sapiens we are. Indeed, 24-35 week birth premature infants have a much better chance of survival than a generation ago (before the year 2000).

There is a video on youtube where the mother gave birth to her thrid baby,with 43weeks and 5days,at home.Het first baby was 8lbs ,second 10lbs and this one 12lbs and more.Satistically speaking,those who have already given birth to babies will have longer pregnancy and larger heavier babies.So it's actually possible for a mother to have longer pregancies.But as the time gets longer ,the infant growa faster.Not only that,its bones gets harder,which means it has bigger shoulders and head,making it harder to birth it out.As a lover of births,I personally love to see the belly gets bigger and the infant's head gets in and out,or just stuck.But if the infant is too big,it may not be possible for it to get out of the womb and reached to the vagina.Of course,if you don't care about the baby,only the mother,you can squeeze the belly or use obstetric forceps to force the baby emerge but that will be extremely painful for the mother.Evem if you get the head emerged,whether the mother can birth the baby out safely ia still unknown.

It suddenly occurred to me when I saw a video on youtube thatva women gave birth to a 44-week baby with a C-section only because she wanted a home birth,yet doctors told hetr that her baby was in danger.So the question is,why do some moms have longer pregancy?Is there any way to make the pregancy longer,for example medical treatment?

(September 9, 2022, 11:51 am)yang It suddenly occurred to me when I saw a video on youtube thatva women gave birth to a 44-week baby with a C-section only because she wanted a home birth,yet doctors told hetr that her baby was in danger.So the question is,why do some moms have longer pregancy?Is there any way to make the pregancy longer,for example medical treatment?

Doctors can use medications to try to stop or slow down labor and/or birth, but this is only for a short time, and only in cases of pre-term labor.  No medical professional that values their license would administer such medication after a woman's due date.