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Someone please help me I’m desprate
I’m in such a pickle I started seeing someone after a really hard breakup with my ex and had unprotected sex with him on the 1st and 2nd December, my ex got back in touch and I had unprotected sex with him the 8th and 9th. Im now having a beautiful baby boy and back with my ex he knows all about the man I was sleeping with but I was sure it would be my ex’s as we are both very fertile. I’m due on the 6th September but giving my due date means I would have conceived on the 14th but I didn’t sleep with either, whose most likely to be the Dad to my baby. I was so sure it was my ex’s as I ovulated between the 7th and the 10th but the more I read the more I worry. My last period was 22nd November but giving my due date makes my period the 30th which it wasn’t. Please someone help I’m going crazy!
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Hi, I've been following your question on the other post you wrote, but the concerns you list in this question focus differently than those you wrote there.
It sounds like you are saying here that:
- based on when your prior period came, you assumed you ovulated on a certain date;
- something (ultrasound scan?) gave you a different due date than you expected from your prior period;
- you used the different due date and computed back, and it gave you the result that your period would not have begun when it did, and
- since you know your period began when it did, it throws doubt into your mind about your due date.
In short, you are saying that counting forward from the date of your last period must overrule the evidence of an ultrasound scan. Let's look at which kind of evidence is more reliable.
Women ovulate when their brain sends them a signal to do so. 14 days after ovulation, she will have a period to get rid of her lining if she didn't get pregnant in the meantime. Periods are the result of the last ovulation, not the lead event of when the next ovulation will be. Nothing about when a period comes, tells for sure when a woman will ovulate next.
An ultrasound measures the crown-to-rump measurement and other developmental markers of the embryo, and assigns a due date based on the measurements. It does not wonder when the woman's last period was, it sees and measures the actual baby.
So, which would you think is more accurate at determining the date when the baby began, the woman's last period or the ultrasound scan measuring the actual baby?
It sounds like you are saying here that:
- based on when your prior period came, you assumed you ovulated on a certain date;
- something (ultrasound scan?) gave you a different due date than you expected from your prior period;
- you used the different due date and computed back, and it gave you the result that your period would not have begun when it did, and
- since you know your period began when it did, it throws doubt into your mind about your due date.
In short, you are saying that counting forward from the date of your last period must overrule the evidence of an ultrasound scan. Let's look at which kind of evidence is more reliable.
Women ovulate when their brain sends them a signal to do so. 14 days after ovulation, she will have a period to get rid of her lining if she didn't get pregnant in the meantime. Periods are the result of the last ovulation, not the lead event of when the next ovulation will be. Nothing about when a period comes, tells for sure when a woman will ovulate next.
An ultrasound measures the crown-to-rump measurement and other developmental markers of the embryo, and assigns a due date based on the measurements. It does not wonder when the woman's last period was, it sees and measures the actual baby.
So, which would you think is more accurate at determining the date when the baby began, the woman's last period or the ultrasound scan measuring the actual baby?
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If just seen this comment, thank you so much for all your help xx
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