Some women experience a lot of discomfort, while others feel no discomfort at all. You may need to go to bed earlier or eat more frequent or smaller meals. Some of the changes you experience in your first trimester may cause you to revise your daily routine. Hormonal changes will affect almost every organ in your body.
If the calculation is done by going back from the due date (either estimated or dated on ultrasound), then 266 days are subtracted (considering a full-term pregnancy of 40 weeks).ĭating the pregnancy from the date of the last menstrual period or following the dating ultrasound, doesn’t only help obtain the due date and give you a date for birth but will also provide the gestational age of the baby and the pregnancy weeks.īear in mind that the pregnancy weeks start from the LMP and not from the conception date, so technically, the first 2 weeks of pregnancy, you are not actually pregnant and in some dating conventions you may find your pregnancy week as 11+2 rather than 13, to account for the 2 week difference.First Trimester: Week 1 (Conception) – Week 12Ī missed period may be the first sign that ovulation has ceased, and you are pregnant. To help with tracking ovulation, you can either monitor the cervical mucus or start charting the basal body temperature.įor ease of reference, the likely conception date is estimated as closest to the ovulation date for the specified menstrual cycle. So for a menstrual cycle of average 28 days, ovulation occurs on approximately the 14 th or 15 th day.ĭepending on egg and sperm viability, the fertile window, hence the time period when a baby can be conceived during a menstrual cycle, is considered to be between 5 days before ovulation and up to 2 days after. As a rule of thumb, it is considered that whilst the follicular phase can vary in length, the luteal phase is more or less close to 14 days, regardless of the menstrual cycle length. The period bleeding marks the start of the follicular phase. Each cycle consists of three different phases, controlled by the endocrine system: follicular phase, ovulation and luteal phase. Menstrual cycle basics, ovulation and conceptionĭuring their fertile period, females start a new menstrual cycle every 28 days, in average, with lengths varying from 26 days to 36 days.
The reverse due date is based on data related to certain rules regarding the menstrual cycle and pregnancy length: This conception calculation can help you either by going in time to see the likely date on which your baby was conceived or to help you plan your pregnancy, if for example, you desire to plan it and birth for a particular period of the year, so you know when you should increase intercourse frequency to try to conceive. The reverse due date retrieves the likely conception date based on either the estimated due date obtained after the dating ultrasound or from data about the last menstrual cycle.
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