good website with developemnt details?

[tinytoes]

Hi all!

I've read around a lot fo websites and they all seem to vary.

And how do they calculate their weeks?

So week 1....is this the week between day 0 and day 7 or does it mean when you're 1 week pregnant (or rather one week from start of last period!).
So right now I'm 6 weeks and 5 days.....is that week 6 or week 7? it baffles me ...i just want to know what the little un is growing this week!!

.....My little un was measured at 6 weeks and 3 days to be 4.9 mm long. Seems very small according to the websites, but doc suggested all was good.



So does anyone have a reliable and clear website I could look at?
Thanks!

 

[Linzi]

I think everyone measures their weeks differently.

For example, Im 13 week and 3 days pregnant (or something), or in my 14th week.

Does that make sense? I hope it does, Im not so good at explaining things :s

Also, Ive been sticking to babycentre.com for development charts, and I dont stray away from there too much as every website is different

xxx

 

[Jules]

I look on the bbc.co.uk website quite a lot, it gives you a week by week account of what baby doing and what your body doing, quite good.

I was confused about the what week i'm in too!

you type your due date into the bbc website and it brings up the week you need to read

 

[Jules]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/pregnancy_calendar/

 

[lynz]

just had a look it is a good website

 

[Margerle]

Most medical professionals calculate pregnancy from the date of your last menstrual period... in other words weeks start calculating from the time you start your period through the time you actually conceive.

Week 1 - First day of last period through 7 days.

Week 2 - 7 through 14 days (assuming at the end of this week, you ovulated and conceived.)

Week 3 - Most docs assume that the beginning of this week, or end of last week you conceived, and the baby is traveling down from fallopian tubes to your uterus.

Week 4 - Implantation into uterus this week or so. Baby is up to 14 days old. But you are considered a month pregnant by docs.

It is done this way because most women have no idea when they ovulate. The average woman will ovulate on day 14 (so they say) so this is an easy way for them to date an early pregnancy prior to scans.

In my case, I had my last menstrual period on August 25th. I ovulated September 7th and got my first BFP on September 17th (my cycles are very short at 25 days, so I tested the day I expected my period).

So even though I wasn't pregnant, docs are counting the 13 days before I ovulated as "you're pregnant".

Docs consider me being pregnant 96 days or 13 weeks 5 days. My baby inside me is about 13 days less than that or 83 days old. So fetal age is closer to 11 weeks.

I have found most internet sites go by the standard medical dating from lmp.

But some sites like https://www.visembryo.com/baby/ use actual fetal age... from date of conception as the dating method.

Kinda confusing

 

[Margerle]

just had a look it is a good website

I agree that is an excellent website. Good for women who chart their cycles, and good for those that do not.

 

[coccyx]

I quite like pregnancy.org