There are many factors that may lead to a preterm birth. Women who have had a previous preterm baby are at highest risk for another preterm baby. Women carrying twins or triplets or have uterine or cervical tumors are also at high risk. A baby's brain is the last major organ to develop during your pregnancy. The part of the brain that the baby will use for thinking doubles in size during the last few weeks of your pregnancy.
When you are 35 weeks pregnant, your baby's brain only weighs two-thirds of what it will weigh at 40 weeks. That's not terribly logical.
Most of the time when women go past their due date , nothing's wrong with them or their babies. They're just not done yet. Unless there's some indication that there's a problem, just chill. It's going to happen. I've heard so many women say, "My body just wouldn't go into labor so my doctor had to induce me. That's what it was designed to do. Maybe it won't go into labor on one specific date, but geez, have a little patience and flexibility, will ya?
I prefer the idea of a floating due date. I think it would be kinder and more accurate to tell women, "your baby will be here sometime near the end of August or beginning of September. I also think women need a reward strategy for enduring the last days and weeks of pregnancy.
It doesn't have to be anything big or expensive, but every day you go past your due date, give yourself a treat. Go to a movie, buy some new socks, make a pan of brownies, get someone to paint your toenails or give you a massage, binge watch your favorite show.
It doesn't really matter what the reward is, as long as it gives you something enjoyable to look forward to help take the sting out of waiting for labor.
Due dates set the stage for the unpredictable nature of parenting. There are so many things you don't really have any control over. When those things come up, sometimes the best way of dealing with them is to just let it be. It's not going to be the cruise you planned on anyway. It's going to be a different trip altogether. Just sit back and wait for things to happen in their own good time.
Your due date is just a good guess — but it's helpful. So is knowing about pregnancy trimesters and how to translate weeks to months in pregnancy. Our pregnancy weeks and months chart will help! To determine your due date, healthcare providers count 40 weeks from the first day of your last menstrual period LMP rather than trying to guess exactly when sperm met egg. Visit our Pregnancy Due Date Calculator to check how many weeks pregnant you are.
Healthcare providers use your LMP to date pregnancy because many women don't know which day they ovulated. And even if you know the day you had sex that resulted in pregnancy, that may not be the day you conceived : Sperm can linger in your uterus for up to five days waiting for an egg to be released so they can fertilize it.
Using your LMP to find your due date means that when you get confirmation that you're pregnant, you'll most likely be 4 or 5 weeks along. There are 40 weeks in a pregnancy — though you're just as likely to deliver your baby a few weeks before or after that.
Each trimester is 13 or 14 weeks long. The first trimester lasts until you're 13 weeks pregnant, the second trimester spans week 14 to week 27, and the third trimester starts the day you turn 28 weeks pregnant and lasts until week 40 or until you deliver your baby. There are three trimesters: the first trimester early pregnancy , the second trimester mid-pregnancy , and third trimester late pregnancy. Check out our chart to see how the weeks, months, and trimesters of pregnancy line up with each other.
You can use the chart above to figure out how the weeks of pregnancy correspond to months. Note that you're not technically one month pregnant until after 4 weeks have passed, for example. But you are "in your first month" during the first 4 weeks and "in month nine" during the last 4 weeks.
Actually, in a typical year, February is the only month that's four weeks or 28 days long. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Dave Mosher. Sign up for notifications from Insider!
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