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Subtract three months from the first day of your last menstrual periodįor example, if the first day of your last menstrual period was June 2, 2022, subtract three months to get March 2, 2022.You can also calculate your due date with the following formula: So try to remember the first day of your last period and add 40 weeks to that. Wondering how your practitioner estimated your due date? It’s calculated counting from the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP), not the day you conceived. The same rules apply when talking about your weeks of pregnancy: You are x weeks pregnant, but in your x+1 week of pregnancy. But no one said you were 2 years old until you'd finished that second year and had begun your third. In other words, on your first birthday, you were in day one of your second year. When you turned 1 year old, you had lived through your first year and were starting on your second. To clear things up, think about birthdays.

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Fifteen full weeks have gone by, but not 16 weeks, so people say that you're both 15 weeks pregnant and in week 16 of pregnancy. If you’re in week 16, you’re actually 15 weeks and some days pregnant. It turns out how many weeks into pregnancy you are is a little different than how many weeks pregnant you are. Your doctor says you're 15 weeks pregnant, but you’re also hearing that you’re in week 16. How do I know what week I am currently in my pregnancy? Here’s a simple breakdown of approximately how the weeks, months and trimesters are counted in pregnancy: Trimester 1 If you're carrying twins, a full-term pregnancy is considered at least 38 weeks. If you're carrying a single baby, a full-term pregnancy is between the start of 39 weeks up to the end of 40 weeks. Right? Not exactly.įour weeks is 28 days, but months (with the exception of February, of course) have 30 or 31 days, making each month about 4.3 weeks long. But wait … there are four weeks in a month, which would make 40 weeks 10 months. Your 40 weeks of pregnancy are counted as nine months. There are three trimesters in a pregnancy: the first trimester, which lasts from weeks 1 to 13, the second trimester, which lasts from week 14 to week 27, and the third trimester, which lasts from week 28 to week 40 (and up). (Just divide 40 by three and you’ll see why the breakdown isn’t exact.) How many trimesters are in a pregnancy? Keep in mind that only about 30 percent of pregnancies will reach precisely week 40. Your due date is calculated starting from the first day of your last menstrual period (even though most pregnancies are not conceived until two weeks later). There are 40 weeks (or 280 days) in a pregnancy.

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