To know about how many weeks pregnant are you, that is, when your baby is most likely to be born is one of the big questions of any pregnant woman. Although we were taught that a woman's cycle lasts 28 days, the truth is that each woman has her own. You know yours, and it is also possible that you have become pregnant at a time of irregularity.
If you want to calculate the weeks of pregnancy, we suggest you use a gestiogram, which you can consult online, there are many calculators for this, or do it manually, in addition to other more curious methods.
How to use a gestiogram
Learn to use a gesturegram It is very simple, surely on your first visit to the gynecologist who is going to follow you will give it to you.
In case you are doing the online calculation what you have to do is put the start date of your last period, the average duration of your cycle and press calculate. Almost all online gestures offer you the opportunity to click in the different weeks and know what are the processes that the fetus and yourself are going through. The pregnancy weeks calculator will give you a indicative result. It is the specialist who will tell you exactly how many weeks you are pregnant, what was the day of conception and what is your probable date of delivery. In an ultrasound the doctor will measure the embryo and know the actual weeks of the pregnancy.
Generally, a pregnancy lasts between 40 and 42 weeks, of which 38 are fetal development, corresponding to 280 days, and are divided into 3 trimesters:
- First trimester: From week 1 to 13 of gestation.
- Second trimester: From week 14 to week 27.
- Third trimester: From week 28 until delivery.
If you want to calculate manually The weeks you are there you have to take into account the length of your menstrual cycle. If it is less than 28 days, remember that for each day less the delivery formula will be brought forward one day. And, on the other hand, if your cycle is longer, for each day of more than your period, one day will be added to the due date.
What is the Chinese pregnancy calendar
The Chinese table or Chinese pregnancy calendar is very simple and used to know the sex of the baby that you will be born and the day of your conception. The calculation you have to do is based on the mother's age and the month the baby was conceived.
The Chinese table takes into account the lunar age of the mother, because the calendar used in China is governed by the Moon. It works like a table of axes, horizontally are the months of the year in which it has been possible to conceive and in the columns the ages of the mother. Only the age of the mother is searched just at the time of conceiving. And you can see if they cross in a pink square, it will be a girl, and if they cross a blue one, then a boy.
This calendar is also used to scheduling the conception of a boy or girla, depending on what you want. Not that it is a scientific method, but who knows! Remember that the Chinese calendar has 12 months, it works a little differently than the western calendar, because they are lunisolar months and not Gregorian months like the ones we use in the West.
Another rule says that if you want to conceive a boy it is more likely if you get pregnant in the 24 hours before or after your ovulation. Those who want to have a girl are best conceived between 5 and 3 days before ovulation.
And regarding this of the conception date, sperm can live in the vagina for up to five days. To determine a conception date based on when you had sex, add two days. It is not an exact figure, but it is a reasonable average.