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1st Trimester
Are you 2 wks pregnant or 4 wks pregnant?
Since there seems to be some confusion. I thought I would take a page out of your WTEWE guide book and look on their webpage. So here I copied and pasted this paragraph right from them. So you don't have to believe us horrible biitches you can get it right from the source. I hope to God this isn't above your head....for your sake more than mine.
https://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/calculating-due-date.aspx
To make things a bit more complicated, the 40 weeks of pregnancy are not counted from the day (or passionate night) you conceived, they're counted from the first day of your last menstrual period (presumably, not so passionate). It seems odd that the medical powers that be (and that determine these kinds of things) would start the time clock on pregnancy before sperm even meets egg (and before your ovary even releases the egg), but it actually makes perfect sense. You know which day you started bleeding, but do you know with 100 percent accuracy the day you ovulated? And even if you do (thanks to ovulation testers, basal body thermometers, and cervical mucus changes), do you know with absolute certainty the date you conceived? (Remember, an egg can be fertilized for 24 hours ? or possibly longer ? after ovulation occurs. And sperm can hang around to fertilize for three days after intercourse. So even if you know the day and time your egg was released, you don't know for sure the date sperm and egg actually got it together.) Which explains why the first day of your pregnancy (at least when it comes to dating it) begins on the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP) ? even though your baby is technically about two weeks younger than that (most women ovulate and conceive two weeks after their LMP) and will only have clocked in 38 gestational weeks by the time your pregnancy has reached the 40-week mark. Still confused by the system? Sure you are. But that's the way your practitioner (and everyone else) will count the weeks.
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Re: Are you 2 wks pregnant or 4 wks pregnant?
Who is the girl that has the quote about arguing with idiots and them having more ammunition than you, because well...they are idiots.
You will never be able to make her understand!
OMG so like all this time I thought I was 13 weeks PREGO & now your telling me I am only like 11 weeks PREGO...you just totally ruined my whole night, now how's my baby daddy gonna believe its his!
LMAO
You are just screwed. Literally. You may want to start pitching the paternity test to talk shows so you don't have to pay for all of them. I'm assuming there are many possible fathers.
OK I was being sarcastic...I thought that was obvious....sorry....notice my wedding pic in the siggy?
Ha ha ha...damnnn I didn't think you'd take me seriously. Geez. If I thought you were for real I would have had a lot more to say than that.
This totally reminded me of Me, Myself, and Irene.