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Reading baby books

I got some pregnancy books and books about when babys gets here so i can take notes. I know i need as much knowledge as i can get being my first kid. Anyways i came across the due date part. Your doctor gives you a due date based off LMP. My doctor didnt do that well kinda. But she measuerd the baby and gave me a due date off that. But the due date she gave me was the first day of my last period. But in the baby book it says thats a 40 weeks period and if you want to count back 3 months and 7 days forward and thats the day you are due from "fertilization" not lmp. That date is called EDC estimated date of confiment. Is this really true? Is that way some womens baby come before 40 weeks? Its so intresting to know all this stuff! Lol idk. Every since i got pregnant i just been really into how all this works.
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6628393 tn?1398789276
Not sure .. i wasn't entirely sure about my dates so they went by ultrasound for me.
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Thats what they did for me as well. I didnt remember the date but the size of my baby was the day of my period. Idk.
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6403762 tn?1381712518
my doctor went by the first day of my last period (which was july 18, based on that I concieved august1st or 2nd.) Then we went by that until I went in for my ultrasound which I was measuring around the same time as given by my doctor (I only measured 3 days ahead) so they kept my due date the same which is April 24.

Hope that kinda helps lol
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6628393 tn?1398789276
You should definitely have your baby on your due date. Best birthday ever!!!!!  ;)
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Lets hope my baby comes july second. A lot of moms here went to 41 weeks! Lol. I just wish we knew when the egg was fertilized because one of those days we had sex it was my babya daddys b day. We were having to much sex that montj lol.
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6628393 tn?1398789276
Lmao.my first my water broke the day before. Never had braxton hicks or contractions until the day I had her. Both were a new house baby lol. We either conceived right before we moved or at the new house lol
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