Once your pregnancy has been confirmed, what you most want to know is your due date. The average length of a pregnancy is 40 weeks, or 280 days, from the first day of the last normal menstrual period. Calculating the due date, or expected date of delivery, for a pregnancy is quite simple, then, if you know that date. Simply add nine months and seven days to the date, and you've got your pregnancy due date.
Here's an example of how it works: Say the first day of the last normal menstrual period was January 1st. Add seven days to that number, and you get the number 8. Add nine months, and you get October. The expected due date of that pregnancy, then, is October 8. (Some physicians use the term expected date of confinement, or EDC for short, to describe the due date.)
2006-09-25 05:23:42
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answered by Gina 4
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You count from the first day of your last menstrual period...its 4 weeks...but in reality its only 2
2006-09-25 12:22:06
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answered by mommy_2_liam 7
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There is a simply way very few people know about, take your finger and check to feel if there is a tough layer over the uterus, this is caused to protect the placenta that the baby is formed in. Depending on the toughness of it, one can tell how far alone you are.
2006-09-25 12:48:08
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answered by Anonymous
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you count from the first day of your period! CONGRATS
2006-09-25 12:23:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Go to this website and it will tell you all the dates you need to know.
http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/pregnancycalendar/l/blpregcalc.htm
2006-09-25 12:34:10
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answered by lynnca1972 5
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go on to my monthycycle .com
2006-09-25 12:24:45
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answered by Anonymous
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