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The benefits of a countdown calculator

Every expectant mom and dad counts down the time during pregnancy. Online pregnancy calculators provide a lot of information about the specifics of your pregnancy, which gives you time to plan and prepare. How much longer will the pregnancy last? How much time has passed? How many months, days, hours, minutes? Did you ever wonder how many days to go to your due date? You can find all this out and more simply by inputting your last menstrual period or your due date in the countdown calculator above.

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Due date calculator

Using a due date calculator is just one of many ways to determine the exact due date. The due date calculator will also display the estimated date of ovulation and the expected due date of your baby. This estimate is based on the last menstrual period and the estimated date of conception.

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Your pregnancy due date is calculated by adding 40 weeks (280 days) to the approximate first day of your last menstrual period or 266 days to the day of ovulation.

Only 5% of women deliver their babies on their projected due date, so this date is just an estimate and delivery usually happens within 2 weeks before or after the due date.

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Your due date is usually not your baby's birthday

Every pregnant woman knows that when you are pregnant, the countdown to your due date begins the day of conception. But what is clear is that what you think is your due date may not be your baby's actual birthday.

There are 266 days from the day of conception to your "due date" or 280 days if you count from the first day of the last period.

The babyMed pregnancy due date calculator gives you a great way to calculate the days up or down.

However, what seems to be a simple question “When are you due?” is really not that simple. Only 5% of babies are actually born on their due date, and most are born before their due date.

Too much pressure placed on the due date

The problem is that having been given a specified due date has made women place too much emphasis on a precise day.

Many doctors use several ways to calculate the due date including a sonogram, which if done early before 20 weeks is usually precise within 7-10 days.

Many women (and their health-care providers) become so attached to their due date that when the baby doesn’t come on that day, they schedule an induction. But because the due date is unreliable in the first place, inducing the baby may cause her/him to be born too soon. These “near-term” infants (as they are known) can have trouble breathing, staying warm and breastfeeding, and they often need special hospital care after birth.

Induction isn’t without risks for you, either: Research has shown that a first-time mother whose labor is induced is twice as likely to have a cesarean section as one whose labor starts on its own. When you let your baby choose her/his own birthday, it means he/she is really ready to begin life outside the womb.

Your due date is an estimate of when you will give birth, not a guarantee. A much better way to calculate the "due date" would be to give you a range of days, maybe a 2-3 weeks period within which you would be expected to have the baby. You still should realize that about 10% of babies are born before 37 weeks, specifically if you are high risk or having multiples like twins.

Retro pregnancy calculator

Do you know your due date but want to know exactly when you did get pregnant? Try our Reverse Conception Calculator. There, you can enter your due date and we will calculate the exact days of conception. More importantly, we will provide the range of dates that you may have made love and conceived.

Counting down the days until the birth of your baby allows you to prepare in so many ways: financially, emotionally, and mentally. It also provides a timeline of exciting milestones to look forward to and gives you time to prepare your nursery and plan for maternity leave.

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Summary

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From early in your pregnancy it is best to keep in mind that due dates are only a guide. Only about five per cent of women give birth on the exact date they are due.
Most babies arrive between 37 weeks and 41 weeks of pregnancy, but usually within a week either side of their expected due date.
Most doctors and midwives are happy for you to go a few days over your due date as long as everything seems to be okay.
If your baby is overdue, you can usually continue to wait or you can discuss with your healthcare professional ways to bring on your labour.

It is very common for pregnant women to go beyond their due date. In fact, only about 5 per cent of women actually give birth on the exact date they are due. Most babies arrive between 37 weeks and 41 weeks of pregnancy, but usually within a week either side of their expected due date. Twins and triplets tend to arrive early.

Coping with being overdue

From early in your pregnancy it is best to keep in mind that due dates are only a guide. However, once you hit the 40-week mark, it is natural to start getting anxious. You might be getting particularly uncomfortable or just be excited about meeting your baby.

Here are some strategies to help:

Keep busy. Plan something for each day so you are not just sitting at home waiting for something to happen. Get out of the house but don’t wander too far! Always take your mobile phone with you.
Prepare meals for freezing. Once the baby comes, you will be glad for those times when you can just grab something from the freezer and reheat it rather than having to shop and cook.
Let friends and family know that you will make contact when something happens. They are excited too, but daily calls can get frustrating when you are already frustrated yourself.
Get some extra rest. Nap during the day if you are finding it difficult to sleep at night. Even sitting comfortably will help build your stores of energy for labour.
Give your GP (doctor) or midwife a call if you are worried.

The dangers of going past your due date

Most doctors and midwives are happy for you to go a few days over your due date as long as everything seems to be okay. Many will let pregnant women go up to two weeks over.

After 42 weeks, however, the baby’s health might be at risk. A very small number of babies die unexpectedly if they are still in the womb beyond 42 weeks of pregnancy.

It is unclear why the risks of a death of the baby rise as the weeks go by. It may have something to do with the placenta not working as well as it did. If this is the case, the supply of oxygen and nutrients to your baby may be reduced.

Options for when you are overdue

When you go for your 41-week appointment, your midwife or doctor may:

double-check your due date by confirming when you had your last period
re-check your dating scan, if you had one
carry out a blood pressure check and test your urine for protein
feel your stomach to check the position and size of your baby
examine your vagina to see if your cervix feels ready for labour.

Your doctor or midwife will discuss your options with you. If your midwife or doctor is happy that everything is okay, you can:

keep waiting for your labour to happen naturally while your healthcare professionals continue to monitor your baby every 3 to 4 days – this could involve your healthcare professional listening to your baby’s heartbeat or conducting an ultrasound to check your baby's movements and to look at the levels of amniotic fluid in your womb
choose to have your labour induced.

However, your midwife or doctor might suggest inducing labour (or performing a caesarean section) if they are concerned about:

your health
the health of your baby
the risk that the placenta can no longer sustain your baby’s life
your waters having broken but with no contractions occurring.

Inducing your baby

‘Induction’ means taking steps to encourage labour to begin. In Australia, about a quarter of pregnant women are induced. Your midwife or doctor (usually an obstetrician - a doctor that has specialised in pregnancy and childbirth, or a GP with obstetric qualifications), will often offer an induction after 41 weeks but the timing will depend on your health and your doctor’s (or hospital’s) policy.

Some policies allow inductions between 7 and 10 days after your due date. Others allow it to go up to 2 weeks. Policies vary because there is no scientific evidence about the ideal time to induce labour.

Medical procedures for inducing labour

If you and your midwife or doctor have decided to induce your labour, the process will begin with the doctor or midwife examining your cervix to see if it is ready for labour. This vaginal examination may be a little uncomfortable, but will only take a few minutes.

Based on the examination, your doctor or midwife will use one of the following ways to induce your labour:

Sweeping of the membranes – gently separating the membranes from the opening of your uterus with their fingers to try to ‘trigger labour’. This procedure can be uncomfortable and can sometimes cause a small amount of bleeding.
Artificial rupture of membranes (breaking your waters) – using a small instrument to make a hole in the sac of amniotic fluid around your baby. Your cervix will need to be open a couple of centimetres before the waters can be broken. This can be uncomfortable, especially if your cervix is not open very far. Breaking the waters may be enough to start labour on its own, but sometimes medication such as oxytocin is also required.
Applying prostaglandin gel – placing this gel (or a pessary) in the back of your vagina to help soften your cervix and prompt it to open. This may be enough to bring on labour, or you may also need your waters broken, or oxytocin to bring on contractions.
Oxytocin drip – putting you on a drip of the man-made version of the hormone, oxytocin, which brings on contractions. This is given through a drip in your arm, and is often used in combination with the other methods listed. Oxytocin can only be administered when the waters have broken, and is used to start contractions or increase contractions.
Cervical ripening balloon catheter – inserting a balloon attached to a tube into your cervix, and filling the balloon with saline to put pressure on your cervix. This remains in place for 15 hours, or until it falls out. Over this time it should cause your cervix to soften and open. This may be enough to bring on labour, or you may also need your waters broken, or oxytocin to bring on contractions.

Where to get help

Your GP (doctor)
Midwife
Obstetrician
Maternal and Child Health Line (24 hours, 7 days) Tel. 13 22 29

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Harbingers - childbirth is coming soon!

Wrestler Maria Vladimirovna

Obstetrician-gynecologist

MD GROUP Clinical Hospital, Mother and Child Clinic Savelovskaya

False contractions

They may appear after the 38th week of pregnancy. False contractions are similar to Braxton-Hicks contractions, which a woman could already feel starting from the second trimester of pregnancy (the uterus seems to stiffen for a few seconds - a couple of minutes, then the tension in it subsides). False contractions train the uterus before childbirth, they are irregular and painless, the intervals between them are not reduced. Real labor pains, on the contrary, are regular, their strength gradually increases, they become longer and more painful, and the intervals between them are reduced. That's when you can already say that the birth began for real. In the meantime, false contractions are going on, it is not necessary to go to the maternity hospital - you can easily survive them at home. nine0003

Abdominal prolapse

Approximately two to three weeks before birth, the baby, in preparation for birth, presses the presenting part (usually the head) against the lower part of the uterus and pulls it down. As a result, the uterus moves lower into the pelvic region, its upper part ceases to put pressure on the internal organs of the chest and abdominal cavity. In the people it is called - the stomach dropped. As soon as the stomach drops, the expectant mother notices that it has become easier for her to breathe, but, on the contrary, it becomes more difficult to sit and walk. Heartburn and belching also disappear (after all, the uterus no longer presses on the diaphragm and stomach). But, having dropped down, the uterus begins to put pressure on the bladder - naturally, urination becomes more frequent. nine0003

For some, uterine prolapse causes a feeling of heaviness in the lower abdomen and even slight pain in the area of the inguinal ligaments. These sensations arise due to the fact that the child's head, moving down, irritates the nerve endings of the pelvic organs.

During the second and subsequent births, the belly drops later - right before the birth. It happens that this harbinger of childbirth is not at all.

Removal of the mucous plug

This is one of the main and obvious harbingers of childbirth. During pregnancy, the glands in the cervix produce a secret (it looks like a thick jelly and forms the so-called cork), which prevents various microorganisms from entering the uterine cavity. Before childbirth, under the influence of estrogens, the cervix softens, the cervical canal opens slightly and the cork can come out - the woman will see that there are mucus clots on the linen that look like jelly. Cork can be of different colors - white, transparent, yellowish-brown or pink-red. Often it is stained with blood - this is completely normal and may indicate that childbirth will occur within the next day. The mucus plug can come out all at once (at once) or come out piecemeal throughout the day. nine0003

Weight loss

Approximately two weeks before delivery, weight loss may occur, usually by 0.5–2 kg. This happens because excess fluid is removed from the body and swelling decreases. If earlier during pregnancy, under the influence of the hormone progesterone, fluid in the body of a pregnant woman accumulated, now, before childbirth, the effect of progesterone decreases, but other female sex hormones - estrogens - begin to work hard, they remove excess fluid from the body of the expectant mother. nine0003

In addition, the expectant mother often notices that at the end of pregnancy it became easier for her to put on rings, gloves, shoes - this means that swelling on the hands and feet has decreased.

Change of stool

Right before childbirth, hormones often act on the intestines - they relax its muscles, as a result, stool disorder begins. Sometimes such frequent (up to 2-3 times a day) and even loose stools are mistaken for an intestinal infection. But if there is no nausea, vomiting, discoloration and smell of feces, or any other symptoms of intoxication, you should not worry: this is one of the harbingers of the upcoming birth. nine0003

And on the eve of childbirth, you often don't feel like eating at all. All this is also the preparation of the body for natural childbirth.

Mood changes

Many women experience mood changes a few days before giving birth. The expectant mother gets tired quickly, she wants to have more rest, sleep, even some kind of apathy appears. This state is quite understandable - you need to gather strength to prepare for childbirth. Often, just before giving birth, a woman wants to retire, looking for a secluded place where you can hide and focus on yourself and your experiences. nine0003

What should I do if there are any signs of childbirth? Usually you don’t need to do anything, because the harbingers are completely natural, they just say that the body is rebuilding and preparing for the birth of a child. Therefore, you should not worry and go to the hospital as soon as, for example, training contractions have begun or the mucous plug has come off. We must wait for real labor pains or outpouring of water.

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Months of Pregnancy | Elite Clinic

First month of pregnancy (weeks 0-4)
Second month of pregnancy (weeks 5-8)
Third month of pregnancy (weeks 9-12)
Fourth month of pregnancy (weeks 13-16)
Fifth month of pregnancy (weeks 17-20)
Sixth month of pregnancy (weeks 21-24)
Seventh month of pregnancy (weeks 25 -28)
Eighth month of pregnancy (weeks 29-32)
Ninth month pregnant (weeks 33-36)
Tenth month of pregnancy (weeks 37-40)

First month of pregnancy (weeks 0-4) >

starts on the first day of the last menstrual period and lasts 4 weeks.

Fertilization occurs about two weeks after menstruation. Then a child is born.
At the end of the month, 36 weeks (8 months 12 days) remain before delivery.
At the end of the month the fetus is two weeks old.
Pinhead sized fetus.

REMEMBER! During pregnancy, you should not take any medication on your own initiative. Check with your doctor or health center nurse for safety information.

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Second month of pregnancy (weeks 5-8)

begins when 4 weeks have elapsed from the first day of the last menstrual period.

Lasts 4 weeks.
At the end of the month, 32 weeks remain before delivery (7 months 14 days).
At the beginning of the month, the embryo is two weeks old, at the end - six weeks old.
At the end of the month, the length of the embryo is about 1.5 cm.
The embryo has small arms and leg rudiments.
The heart and nose begin to develop. ears and eyelids, nervous system, spine and umbilical cord.

REMEMBER! Smoking and drinking alcohol during pregnancy can harm your baby. nine0003

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The third month of pregnancy (weeks 9-12)

begins when 8 weeks have elapsed from the first day of the last menstruation

At the end of the month, 28 weeks (6 months 16 days) remain before delivery.
At the beginning of the month the fetus is 6 weeks old? at the end of 10 weeks.
At the end of the month, the length of the fruit is approx. 9 cm. The weight is approx. 20 g.
The heart starts beating for the first time.
The fetus floats in the amniotic fluid in the bladder and receives nutrients through the umbilical cord. nine0069 The fetus already has the upper and lower jaws and the rudiment of the tongue. The first rudiments of teeth appear.

REMEMBER! A good physical and mental condition of the mother contributes to the successful development of the fetus: a healthy diet and walks in the fresh air are useful for both.

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The fourth month of pregnancy (weeks 13-16)

begins when 12 weeks have elapsed from the first day of the last menstruation.
At the end of the month, 24 weeks (5 months 18 days) remain before delivery
At the beginning of the month the fetus is 10 weeks old, at the end of the month it is 14 weeks old.
At the end of the month, the fetus is about 16 cm long and weighs about 100 g. The uterus is about the size of a fist.
The head is large and makes up almost half of the total length. The face begins to take shape. Ears and genitals develop.
The fetus tries to breathe and swallow. He pushes with his legs, moves his toes and fingers, turns his head. The mother, however, does not yet feel these slight movements.

REMEMBER! in order to receive maternity benefit, must appear at the antenatal clinic or doctor no later than during the fourth month of pregnancy. nine0003

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The fifth month of pregnancy (weeks 17-20)

begins when 16 weeks have elapsed from the first day of the last menstruation.

At the end of the month, 20 weeks (4 months 20 days) remain before delivery.
At the beginning of the month the fetus is 14 weeks old, at the end of the month it is 18 weeks old.
At the end of the month, the length of the fetus is about 25-27 cm, its weight is about 250-300 g.
The fetus develops its own blood circulation and the heart beats twice as fast as that of an adult.
The skin of the fetus is covered with fluffy hair that disappears before birth. Appear. in particular. brows.
The placenta at this stage is almost the size of a fetus and protects the fetus from harmful substances. but can't filter everything.
By this time, the mother already feels the movements of the fetus in that case. if she gave birth before.

REMEMBER! The time has come to arrange with the antenatal clinic nurse about family preparation.

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Sixth month of pregnancy (weeks 21-24)

starts when 20 weeks have elapsed from the first day of your last period.

At the end of the month, 16 weeks (3 months 22 days) remain before delivery.
At the beginning of the month the fetus is 18 weeks old, at the end of the month it is 22 weeks old.
The weight of the fetus is from 400 to 600 g, the length is about 30 cm. It moves so that even the primipara feels its movements. A heartbeat is heard.
At the end of the month, the fundus of the uterus is at the level of the navel. Faster uterine growth is often a sign of twins.
The fetus tries to suck, the thumb often slips into the mouth. Hands, hair and nails grow. The protective shell begins to turn into skin. nine0069 The fetus sleeps most of the time, but may be awakened by voices or shaking from outside.

REMEMBER! At the 22nd week of pregnancy, you can already apply for maternity, paternity, parenthood and childbirth benefits. (See chapter Services and Benefits for Families with Children).

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The seventh month of pregnancy (weeks 25-28)

- begins when 24 weeks have elapsed from the first day of the last menstruation.

At the end of the month, there are 12 weeks left before delivery (2 months 24 days). nine0069 At the beginning of the month the fetus is 22 weeks old, at the end of the month it is 26 weeks old.
The weight of the fetus is about one kilogram, its length is about 35 cm.
The fetus moves a lot, turns and pushes with its legs so that it can be seen even from the outside. He opens and closes his eyes, has a strong grip on his hands.
The uterus has risen to the level of the navel. The first contractions of the uterus may be felt in such a way that the abdomen "hardens" for a few seconds.
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Eighth month of pregnancy (weeks 29-32)

begins when 28 weeks have passed since the first day of the last menstruation

At the end of the month, 8 weeks are left before delivery (1 month 26 days).
At the beginning of the month the fetus is 26 weeks old, at the end of the month it is 30 weeks old.
The fruit is about 40 cm long and weighs about 1. 5 kg.
In appearance, the fetus is similar to a newborn, however, it is more fragile in build, If it had been born, it could have remained alive.
However, the lungs and many other organs of the fetus are not yet fully developed. It does not have all the antibodies that a full-term fetus has. nine0003

REMEMBER! during this period, you should not work for a long time standing on your feet, lifting heavy weights or doing other heavy work.

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The ninth month of pregnancy (weeks 33-36)

begins when 32 weeks have elapsed from the first day of the last menstruation.

At the end of the month, there are 28 days or four weeks left before delivery.
At the beginning of the month the fetus is 30 weeks old, at the end of the month it is 34 weeks old.
The length of the fetus is about 47 cm, weight is about 2700 g. nine0069 The fetus moves less than before, as the uterus becomes cramped for him. Most fruits turn head down during this period.
A greasy layer forms on the surface of the skin, the so-called. original lubricant.
The uterus has risen to its maximum height, to the ribs.

REMEMBER! Prepare now everything you need for the child.

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The tenth month of pregnancy (weeks 37-40)

- begins when 36 weeks have elapsed from the first day of the last menstruation, or 34 weeks from the start of fertilization. nine0003

At the beginning of the month, the fetus is 34 weeks old and is usually born at 38 weeks.
The uterus is lowered and the fetal head is placed in the exit position. The cuts are greatly enhanced.
The fetus pushes so hard in the uterus that it can knock over a book placed on the mother's stomach.
Most newborns are 49 to 52 cm long and weigh 3,000 to 4,000 grams. Childbirth occurs at the end of the tenth month of pregnancy. However, the onset of labor a week earlier or a week later is a common occurrence. nine0003

REMEMBER! If amniotic fluid begins to leak, pain or spotting occurs, or when contractions become regular, you should immediately go to the maternity hospital.