Pregnancy week by week using due date
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Doctors calculate pregnancy using a 40-week calendar, though from the date of conception, pregnancy is only 38 weeks long. They go back and start the count on the first day of your last period. This is the way doctors have dated pregnancy for a long time, certainly from before the invention of ultrasounds, because the first day of a period is a noticeable signal and known date, and ovulation is hidden and happens on a date not usually known.
When I got my sono done at 10 weeks the lady asked my due date I went based on my LMP. She said the baby was measuring at the right pace for that to be my due date. So mine stayed the same.
I have 4 daya until my due date and i can not even explain how totally miserable i am. I hate to complain but serioualy i had no idea how horrible pregnancy could be. Im praying everyday for my baby to come but every women in my family has been overdue. Appointment today...gonna ask if they will sweep my membranes.
My due date keeps changing every time I go to the dr.'s and it's driving me crazy because I don't know who the father is. I was sleeping with the guy I was dating until October 19. We broke up and I slept with another guy on October 21. When I first found out I was pregnant the dr. said I was about 8 weeks along. That wouldn't be possible though because that would put my conception date the week I was on my period (first week of October) and I didn't have sex on my period.
Yeah my first was at 39 weeks. And my 2nd was born a day before her due date.
If you got a due date from an ultrasound in your sixth, seventh or eighth week, that is the best one to follow. Later in your pregnancy, the baby might grow more quickly or less quickly than average, and by the time you are at your 40th week, due dates given by the baby's measurements can vary by as much as three weeks from the average.
My due date is on the 21 and my cervix are still closed this is my first baby I'm not sure why things are taking so long I don't know what to do any suggestions?
No. You didn't get pregnant in October.
Toes - so same with you - you are also measuring slightly behind like me - we had IVF so know the excact date of conception - so I still see July 7th as our due date - but now they say July 11th! let us know how it goes at your next us in 4 weeks :)
Baker - thanks for the congrats - I am SO beyond happy - let us know how it goes on Jan 10th!!! so exciting to reach that point!! We decided we are going to find out the gender - My Doc said they can tell us at 20 weeks!!!! Yay!!
No matter how fast a baby grows compared to average or how large the baby is at a later ultrasound, the ultrasound that matters for trying to guess when conception was is the one in the 6th or 7th week, not later ones. The due date they told you in your sixth week and in your seventh week should remain the baby's due date no matter how fast she grows. Some babies grow faster or slower than average. That doesn't change their due date.
My question is does the dr. based the due date on the last date of my period because at first she had told me that my due date was on sep. 24 but the last time I saw her she did an ultrasound and she said that my due date would be sep. 23 because I was not sure of my last period. Another question is, what happens if I go over my due date, lets say a week later. Does that mean I had concived my baby during the time I was not ovulating.
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