Your Pregnancy Due Date

Pregnancy brings with it a multitude of guessing games; guessing the gender of your baby; guessing what your baby will look like; guessing the nature of your delivery and when the big day will actually arrive. Your pregnancy due date ? calculated with a multitude of formulas ? is certainly not set in stone. But nevertheless, calculating your pregnancy due date is still necessary ? and exciting.

Surprising to some is the fact that there are actually quite a number of different ways to calculate your pregnancy due date. The fact is that what is an accepted formula in one culture doesn?t hold up in another. You?ll find a dizzying array of cultural and ethnic specific practices that vary from country to country.

For some, simply adding nine months ? or forty weeks - to the first day of the pregnant woman?s last period ? and then subtracting two weeks ? will give you your pregnancy due date. Another way to calculate your pregnancy due date is to take the first day of your last period and subtract three months. Add seven days to that number and you have your pregnancy due date.

There are a variety of fun ways to try to calculate your pregnancy due date that are available online. While this in no way is a substitute for the information gleaned from your obstetrician, it can be an entertaining thing to do during your long nine months of waiting.

Today?s state-of-the art technology allows us to use ultrasound to determine the development of the fetus, thus giving us the most accurate pregnancy due date currently available in modern medicine.

Regardless of whether the big day comes a week before your pregnancy due date or a week after, ultimately it won?t much matter. Because what you get at the end of this journey is a beautiful new baby and the start of a whole new life.

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