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Baby Due Date

baby due date

The first week of your pregnancy starts with the beginning of your last period. So it is calculated that you are pregnant two weeks before you actually conceived. Most women will ovulate around two weeks before your next period and this is the time you will conceive. Pregnancy last approximately 280 days or forty weeks. And for many women, the baby can come out plus or minus two weeks from their due date. To calculate your due date, just add 280 days from the day of your last period or count back three months from the first day of your last period and then add seven days.

Rarely do women actually give births on their due dates, about 5%. The due date is just an approximate date given for the baby, this does not mean that you will or must have the baby on that date. Some doctors will give you a due date week, which is a seven date window on when they believe you will have the baby based on the due date calculations.

So if you are trying to figure out how big or old your baby is, just remember that when your doctor say that you are 10 weeks pregnant, your fetus is only 8 weeks (fertilization age).

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About a week after coming home from Hawaii on May 11th, I had a prenatal appointment with my ob-gyn, which I could not wait to go to. I wanted them to reassure me that my pregnancy was going well. I was stressing over some bleeding that I had while I was in Hawaii. The doctor did a pap smear, checked my pelvis and uterus and said everything felt fine. I told her about the bleeding and spotting a couple of weeks earlier and she thought an ultrasound might be a good idea to make sure that everything was alright.

Since this was an early stage of pregnancy, I had a transvaginal ultrasound done. A transducer was used to check for the baby's heartbeat. The ultrasound technician found my little baby and the yolk sac which feeds the baby until the placenta is mature enough to start feeding the baby directly from my nutrients. The ultrasound technician assured me that the baby looked good. The heart was beating at around 160/bpm. She also measured the baby and from her measurement, the baby was a week younger than what I told them I was. So instead of the nine weeks that I thought I was, she said I was only at eight weeks into my pregnancy. I told her I was sure the last period that I had started on the 18th of March. The ultrasound measurement gave me a new due date a week later over the due date my doctor had originally given me. My due date went from December 23rd to December 29th.

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