conceiving

[Ms_River27]

I wanna kno why do they count 40 weeks frm your last period when ur not officially prego til like the third week??

[isntsure]

Woops darn autotype I meant to say "whether your ovulating or about to." not products lol. Also it's even harder if you have irregular periods because then it's more difficult to know when you ovulates. And plus even if you do have a regular period sometimes you don't always ovulate at the same time every month. I'm kind of hoping for a boy too but ill be happy with a boy or a girl :)

[isntsure]

No it doesn't take two weeks to conceive :) the two weeks would be the open windows for you to get pregnant. If you didn't get pregnant during that Window then you would go on to have your period. It usually doesn't take sperm that long to reach the egg. Some people say it could be as short as 30mins. It really just depends especially depends on your "environment " whether your ovulating products about to. Because normally when a woman ovulates her body creates cervical mucus that is very slippery and helps the sperm travel up faster to the eggs. Also nobody can ever know for sure when they conceived or when they're due date is. The proper term is estimated due date or edd but most women call it their due date. Unless you track when you ovulate how long your periods are and the days you have sex its even harder to know the edd or conception date. Hope this helped :)

[Ms_River27]

But thanks for all of your responses

[Ms_River27]

Oohh...I think its jus confusing a tad bit...because the first day of my lmp was 2/5 and this app says I conceived 2/19...so does it take two weeks to conceive? And I can't remember if tht was implantation bleeding or my regular period...but I'm 17 weeks 6days with my third...fingers crossed for a baby boy bcuz I have 2 lil divas already kol

[isntsure]

Since they count the two weeks from when your not pregnant yet I think that would be a huge reason as to why a lot of first time mothers as well as subsequent pregnancies go past "the due date". I actually read in "Your Best Birth" by Ricki Lake & Abby Epstein that over in "France doctors say pregnancy lasts 41 weeks" page 125 and also that "The assumption that pregnancy lasts 40 weeks is something the doctors pulled out of the history books. A German obstetrician back in the 1800's declared that pregnancy takes forty weeks and we haven't budged form that idea since. More recent studies of healthy women show that first-time mothers typically go a week or more past that. Modern obstetrics starts talking about inducing at forty-one weeks even though for most women that's just at the moment when their pregnancy is complete and their baby is getting ready for labor." Also page 125.  So "As an alternative, Dr.Stuart Fischbein suggests a due "window". This alleviates the problem of Aunt Mary writing down a due date and calling every day to ask, "Why isn't your doctor doing something?" he uses a window from three weeks before the calculated date to two weeks after. This is essentially a five-week window, so when friends ask when you're due, you just say somewhere between May 1 and June 4, for example." Page 125 again. I hope this helped a little bit :)

[Lesley27]

so your pregnancy started 2 weeks prior even tho you hadnt concieved yet... if that helps??

[Lesley27]

Its counted from the first day of your cycle... which is the first day of your last period, its when your body starts to do the prep work for the potential upcoming pregnancy(if you become pregnant) so even tho you havent offically gotten pregnant your body is already preparing for it... so the 2 weeks prior to concieving does have a lot to do with your pregnancy(just as important for the pregnancy as implantation and everything else involved)

plus lots of woman dont know when they actually concieved but do know when their last period occured... so thats an easier way of counting how far along you are also.... hopefully this makes sense?

[naryashadow]

No clue, but its usually actually a sonogram that tells you the exact dates around that.