Calculating the age of a Pregnancy Posted: 07-29-06 17:55pm
just found out that i am pregnant. my last
period was 20 june 2006. the calculations
been given say that i am 5 weeks and 4
days pregnant. the trouble is my partner
and i have not had full intercourse since
about a week before my last period. is it
possible to still have a period whilst in
your early stages of pregnacy please?. my
partner is confused as am i. thankyou in
advance. lorraine
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Pregnancy Answer A1289 Posted: 08-03-06 03:41am
The age of a pegnancy is calculated from
the first day of your last period. You
should be around 39 days pregnant at the
time of this post. Accordingly, you
probably conceived sometime during the
first 10 days of July. But, because you
are saying that you haven’t had sex
since the middle of JUNE then there are 2
possibilities:
1. Perhaps your last period wasn’t on
the 20th of June but was earlier and went
unnoticed. This scenario indicates that
the bleeding on the 20th of June wasn’t
a period... but another form of vaginal
bleeding. Such vaginal bleedings can occur
during a pregnancy on the day of an
expected period during the first months of
pregnancy. The vaginal bleeding can cause
confusion and a miscalculation in the age
of a pregnancy. 2. The second
possibility is that you had sex and
conceived in the first half of July.
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