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Due DateNo doubt that your life would be much easier if you are pregnant and you know the exact date at which you will deliver your baby. Clinical studies suggest that only 4 percent of women will deliver on their due date. The remaining women will deliver within a range of 2 weeks earlier or 2 weeks later i.e. 38 to 42 weeks. Since no one is really sure of your due date, it is termed the estimated date of delivery (EDD). Calculating your due date is very simple. Just add 7 days and 9 months to the first day of your last menstrual period to get your due date. To make it simple, if the first day of your last menstrual period was, for example, March 10. Add 7 to 10, which will result in March 17 and then add 9 months, then your due date will be December 17. If your periods are regular and they came every 28 days, you should expect that you will deliver very close to your estimated date. If your periods are longer than 28 days, you will mostly deliver past your estimated date and if they are shorter, you should expect delivering earlier. But if your period is irregular, this dating method will not apply for you at all. Suppose you haven’t had your cycle in 4 months and all of a sudden you’re carrying a baby. When did you get pregnant? Considering a decisive EDD is necessary, you and your obstetrician will have to attempt to come up with one. Although it can be difficult for you to detect your most recent ovulation, yet some women can give certain clues that suggest the release of an ovum such as flank or loin pain that stays for few hours, vaginal discharge that is clear as well as temperature drop immediately before ovulation followed by rise immediately afterwards. The very first hint, the dimensions of your womb, will be checked when your first internal pregnancy checkup is done. It should coordinate to your stage of pregnancy that is in question. Later on there are other milestones that together can more accurately gauge just how pregnant you are: the first time the fetal heartbeat is heard (at about 10 to 12 weeks with a Doppler device, or at about 18 to 22 weeks with a stethoscope); when the first flutter of life is felt (at about 20 to 22 weeks with a first baby, or 16 to 18 with subsequent ones); the height of the fundus (the top of the uterus) at each visit (for example, it will reach the navel at about the 20th week). If all of these indications seem to correspond to the due date you and your practitioner have calculated, you can be pretty sure that it is close to accurate—that is, that you are quite likely to deliver within two weeks of that date. But if they don’t correspond, the doctor may decide to do a sonogram sometime between the 12th and 20th weeks (the best information, some believe, can be garnered between weeks 16 and 20), which can more closely pinpoint the gestational age of your fetus. Some doctors will do a sonogram routinely, to obtain the most accurate date possible. As delivery nears, there will be other clues to the date of the big event: painless contractions may become more frequent (and possibly uncomfortable), the fetus will drop into the pelvis (engagement), your cervix will begin to thin and shorten (effacement), and last of all, your cervix will begin to dilate. These clues will be helpful, but not definitive only your baby knows for sure what his or her birthday will be. Pregnancy Week To Week 1- 40
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