Sign up to our week by week pregnancy guide - where we'll deliver you weekly email updates of what you need to know from week one to week 40. If you've only gone by early pregnancy symptomsor a gut-feeling you're pregnant, take a testor visit a doctor to confirm. You will be seeing a lot of your practitioner over the next 9 months, so have a look around at who would be a good match. Antenatal care providers often schedule a meeting for when you are 8 weeks pregnant. How likely is it my baby will be born on their due date?Ĭhoose a hospital or maternity care provider
Keep in mind that women with irregular cyclesmay have difficulty calculating their due dates (the LMP method is far from a perfect science), so if you fall in that camp talk to your doctor to get the best estimate of your due date.īabies born via IVF will have their due date calculated from date of embryo implantation, not LMP or ultrasound. Simple! Although, don’t be surprised if you add back and find you didn’t have sex on that exact date.Īll babies grow at an individual rate and your due date is only an estimation, so be as prepared as you can be for a slightly-earlier-than-expected surprise, or carrying your baby for a little longer than that date you now have fixed in your head. Take that date, add nine months, and you get your due month. Ready to brush off your GCSE maths? Take the first date of your last normal period, add seven days to that number.
To work out the length of your menstrual cycle, count from the day your period normally starts to the day before your next period. ‘Your dating scan, which you’ll have at 10 to 14 weeks is the most accurate scan to determine your due date,’ explains expert Teresa Walsh, a midwife at The Portland Hospital, London. Most women ovulate and conceive two weeks after their last period (or LMP for Last Menstrual Period in fertility speak) and will only be around 38 gestational weeks by the time the pregnancy has reached the 40-week mark.
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