Due dates

The closer we get to our 'due date' the more I have been thinking about the pressure involved in adhering to a specific date (I have been off sick recently so I have had a bit of 'thinking time' on my hands!).
When we found out we were pregnant we worked out our own due date and this was confirmed by the medical profession but what on earth does it really mean? Obviously we believe our bambini will be incredibly intelligent but I highly doubt that it has a little palm-top with its birth date diligently entered.
As I read more and more about birth procedures (arming myself with as much knowledge as possible) I realise how much importance the medial profession place on this date, using it as a basis for deciding when it is 'safe for you to birth at home' or when to induce labour if they feel baby has been 'cooking' for too long.
We briefly spoke to Caroline the midwife at Crowborough Birthing Unit and she agrees that too much emphasis is placed on this highly specific date women are given, which can ultimately cause a great deal of stress and the unfair labelling of baby as either lazy or inconveniently early.
Caroline told us that she preferred to work on a ten lunar cycle gestation period as this is what women traditionally had used. She asked us if we knew the lunar dates of our pregnancy and as luck would have it Greg and I had been checking this that very morning.
Baby was conceived at new Alder moon (20th March - Spring Equinox) and is due 12th December which is new Birch moon according to our calendar, however I have a sneaky suspicion that our baby will be drawn to the full moon and will make its appearance in time for Winter Solstice (around 22nd / 23rd December).
I really feel that being given a more general time scale, whether that is "December new moon" or "sometime mid December" it would take an awful lot of pressure off pregnant woman to 'perform' on a certain date.
Until such a time that the medical profession looks back to the natural world and to the wisdom of the moon and seasons I suggest scientists start working on designing babies with internal alarm clocks so that they may have the good manners to arrive on their specified due dates.
:-)