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Who could potentially be the father
I had sex with man A January 19. I then had my period February 7th-13th ( not quite sure of it was heavy or not) I then had sex with man B from February 16th and so on. I got a positive pregnancy test March 3rd at home. I made a prenatal apt where I was told I was measuring 6 weeks exactly on march 19th. Is there any chance, even slightly that man A could be the father?
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No, Man A is not the father.
The gestational-age count of the length of pregnancy doesn't begin at conception, it begins on the first day of your last period (or on a calculated first day of your last period if the embryo's measurements seen in an ultrasound don't match your actual last period). In either case, the GA count of weeks "pregnant" does not start on the day of conception, it begins two weeks prior to that. So if they did an ultrasound and told you that the embryo is measuring at 6 weeks, they meant you were 4 weeks since conception.
Did you have an ultrasound, or was this measured by the doctor pulling out a little cardboard wheel looking at dates?
The gestational-age count of the length of pregnancy doesn't begin at conception, it begins on the first day of your last period (or on a calculated first day of your last period if the embryo's measurements seen in an ultrasound don't match your actual last period). In either case, the GA count of weeks "pregnant" does not start on the day of conception, it begins two weeks prior to that. So if they did an ultrasound and told you that the embryo is measuring at 6 weeks, they meant you were 4 weeks since conception.
Did you have an ultrasound, or was this measured by the doctor pulling out a little cardboard wheel looking at dates?
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I had a vaginal ultrasound where the embryo was just about 6 weeks showing a little beating heart
There is no question, then, that Man A is not the dad. If the doctor had just hauled out a little cardboard calendar wheel, it might be worth asking more, but your GA count is based on the measurements of the embryo once you get an ultrasound. Getting it at 6 weeks GA makes it pretty accurate.
Ultrasound computers use the same pregnancy time-period count as any other medical source (doctor, nurse, medical book, "What to Expect When You're Expecting," all of them add two weeks at the front end to reach back to the first day of the woman's last period, and start the count of weeks there.) Even though you weren't actually pregnant in the first 14 days of the pregnancy time period, that's the way they count it even so.
This means, the first guy was way too early to have anything to do with the pregnancy. It sounds like you conceived around February 19.
Ultrasound computers use the same pregnancy time-period count as any other medical source (doctor, nurse, medical book, "What to Expect When You're Expecting," all of them add two weeks at the front end to reach back to the first day of the woman's last period, and start the count of weeks there.) Even though you weren't actually pregnant in the first 14 days of the pregnancy time period, that's the way they count it even so.
This means, the first guy was way too early to have anything to do with the pregnancy. It sounds like you conceived around February 19.
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