How many weeks pregnant am I?
During the entire pregnancy, you discover surprising things, many changes occur in the woman's body, and the baby evolves rapidly. Everything progresses very quickly.
This is one of the reasons why pregnancy time is usually measured in weeks and why it's easier for the gynecologist to track these advances this way. As we are not used to quantifying time this way, this often leads us to ask how many weeks pregnant am I? Let's see how tocalculate pregnancy weeks.
One thing that caught my attention during my first pregnancy was the way my gynecologist counted the weeks. Typically, gynecologists start counting from the day of the last menstrual period and assume that the pregnancy will last 40 weeks. I knew the potential day of my conception, but he didn't take it into account. Our intuition to calculate the possible birth date of our baby would be from the day we assume we got pregnant plus 38 weeks, which correspond to 9 months. If we notice, really, the two dates will coincide because women usually ovulate two weeks after the last period, so we have the two weeks' difference between the gynecologists' and our counts. By calculating this way, the gynecologist ensures a start date that leaves no room for doubt.
NOTE: Generally, the duration of a pregnancy is established at 38 weeks, but between week 37 and week 42 is considered within normalcy.
Sometimes, we may also have heard the pregnancy time expressed in two figures, for example, 6 plus 3. If you notice, in ultrasounds, where the pregnancy time is calculated based on the fetus's measurements, it is often identified this way. These two figures correspond to the pregnancy week plus the days, in the previous example, it would be 6 weeks and 3 days. Generally, we tend to round these figures and speak only in weeks.
Therefore, to summarize and following the format used by gynecologists, when you ask yourself "how many weeks pregnant am I?" we will count from the day of the last period until the current day.
To make the task easier for you, since it is usually difficult to count in weeks, here is a pregnancy week calculator that you can use to track your pregnancy time.
Pregnancy Week Calculator
If you still don't know if you're pregnant, you can check with our free online pregnancy test and if you want to be more sure, buy a pregnancy test here you can see pregnancy test prices from Amazon's website. Or dare to take a homemade pregnancy test at home.
NOTE: If you find it impossible, especially for our partners, what I did was write the pregnancy week number in front of each week on the calendar we have on the fridge.
