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Pregnancy due date calculator
If you are using our pregancy calculator congratulations on your pregnancy. Even if you get the calculator out, add a few fingers and toes, and you’re still not sure when your baby is due? Use our pregnancy calculator tool to figure out the approximate date. (But, remember, nearly 5 per cent of women won’t actually…
Question: Variations in due date
Q: ”I recently went for a dating scan, where I was told that I was 11 weeks 6 days pregnant and that my due date is 31st May 2000. This confuses me as the first day of my last period was 14th August 1999, which would give me a due date of 21st May 2000. I…
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Glossary of pregnancy terms: E
Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) The continuous monitoring of the baby during labour, either through transducers which are attached by belts to the mother’s abdomen, or by a scalp electrode which is inserted through the mother’s vagina and attached to the baby’s scalp. Embryo For the first 10 weeks of pregnancy the baby is called an embryo. After…
Reaching your due date
Pregnancy is normal if it lasts anything from 37 weeks to 42 weeks. The trouble with being given a due date is that you and your partner and all your friends become focused on one particular day of the year rather than on the one or two weeks around that date. In fact, only around five per cent…
Going overdue
Your due date Research suggests that the placenta can start to function a little less well for a very small number of women after 41 weeks of pregnancy and that this decline can accelerate after 42 weeks. This is why many hospitals offer to induce women when they are between 41 and 42 weeks gestation.…
