You are not technically pregnant then. Then I look at the "your baby week by week" and I did not have a baby in week 1 by this calender....CONFUSED! If I go by those calenders I am 6 weeks tomorrow but If I go by conception I am only 4 weeks. Which is it?
2007-06-11 04:48:21 · 6 answers · asked by Cash, Gage and Jax's Mom 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
It's 6, because this is what yor doctor goes by...pregnany is 40 weeks from the first day of your last period. It sounds dumb, I know, but it's what they do so just roll with it. The reasoning behind it (besides being easier to calculate, since most women know their last period but not actual conception) is that they're counting your whole menstrual cycle as part of the pregnancy, including the maturing and ovulation of the egg, even before fertilization.
2007-06-11 04:53:13 · answer #1 · answered by grayhare 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no way to know for sure which day you really did ovulate and conceive, so most health professionals take the easier route and go back to the first day of your last menstrual period -- a date that more women can pinpoint for certain. Then they count forward 40 weeks from that day to find your due date.
2007-06-11 04:55:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it extremely is a historic factor. earlier we knew that we ovulated on (in many cases) day 15 or in spite of of our cycles, the only indication that a doctor had as to once you have been due grew to become into while your final era began. there is likewise the version factor - confident, you ovulate at day 15, say, yet fertilization might take place 2 days later. it would make greater experience to alter it so gestation is 38 weeks, no longer 40, and count type it as commencing at fertilization. yet that would contain getting all of us to alter, and maximum do no longer see the reason why they could substitute.
2016-10-08 23:45:36 · answer #3 · answered by tiara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was too... & i still feel like i'm going to be 10 months instead of 9 when i have the baby. on www.babycenter.com it actually shows you that the 1st 2 weeks are preconception and what is taking place. i hate when ppl ask me how far i am because i want to say ....19 but really 17 cause i wasn't pregnant the 1st 2 weeks....good luck!
2007-06-11 04:55:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its easier to count from the 1st day of your last period. the first week of pregnancy is your last period.
2007-06-11 05:13:55 · answer #5 · answered by kleighs mommy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't get the calendars either. Just go by the week your doctor tells you.
2007-06-11 04:58:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋