![]() Some women experience pain/cramps in their lower abdomen often feeling like they come from near or behind your bladder or in your lower back. Your period can last 3-8 days.ĭuring your period you will experience blood loss and may also during or just before your period feel irritable and bad-tempered, have mood swings, suffer fluid retention and feeling bloated. During this time the thickened lining of your uterus (womb) sheds because an egg has not been fertilised and/or attached itself to your uterus wall. In week one of the month you will conceive in, you will have your period (menstruate). Some women naturally have longer pregnancies 42 or even 43 weeks. More babies come after their calculated due date but it is normal to have your baby up to about two weeks on either side of your due date. Some research showed that the average length of pregnancy is probably 40 weeks and 6 days.įor these reasons - and the natural variation in the way we grow our baby - only 5% of mothers have their baby on the due date calculated. In France pregnancy is counted as being 41 weeks long. ![]() If you conceive earlier or later in your cycle then your due date will be different from that estimated.Įven the estimated length of pregnancy is in dispute. However not every woman has a 28 day cycle or space between periods, and not everyone produces an egg which is ready for fertilisation half way between periods. ![]() So, oddly, the 40 weeks of pregnancy include the first two weeks of your last cycle when you were not pregnant because you had not yet conceived. It is assumed that you will actually conceive half way between periods (on day 14) and that pregnancy lasts 38 weeks from the date you conceive. She will estimate the due date of your baby by counting forward 40 weeks from that date. When your midwife estimates the due date of your baby she will ask you for the day your last period started.
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