I'm newly pregnant and still figuring out a lot of things. My doctor keeps talking about weeks of pregnancy, and I'm a bit confused. How do I accurately count my pregnancy weeks, starting from which date?
My saas was telling me to count months but actually doctors go by weeks from the first day of your last period. It gets so confusing when everyone at home counts differently. Just follow what your gynac writes on the prescription files, it's much easier.
Honestly, I only remember my weeks because I track what fruit size the baby is every week, like a lime or a papaya. I count from the LMP, which is the last period start date. By the way, reading about papayas always makes me crave chaat, haha!
It can be really confusing in the beginning. Normally we count from the first day of your last period, even if conception happened later. Take care and don't take stress, you will get used to it soon.
I remember being so confused about this during my first trimester, it felt like learning school math all over again. You start counting from the first day of your last period. Enjoy this beautiful phase, those weeks will fly by so fast before you even realize.
I also used to get so mixed up with this. For me, my doctor told me that we count from the first day of the last cycle. I just followed what my scan reports said because counting manually was too much headache.
Trust me, my math skills died the day I got pregnant! You basically count from your last period's first day, which feels like cheating because you weren't even pregnant then. Just use an app on your phone, let the satellites do the work for you.
When I was expecting, my doctor explained that week 1 starts from the first day of your last period. It's a bit weird but that's how medical science tracks it. After my C-section, looking back, those weekly calculations seem like a lifetime ago, so just go with the flow.
