Conception date query
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Mine was a bit of a weird one too, at my 12 week scan I turned out to be 13 weeks which would mean I ovulated 1 week after my last period started. I guess it can happen.
@Abi Hey.. it is to me. My body doesn’t cope well with hormonal contraceptives and rejected the copper coil so we were using condoms during (what we believed) to be fertile times. I definitely didn’t hope to get pregnant.. there’s been some pretty tough conversations and I just want to try and understand my body better to avoid this happening again.
@Alex I see, In that case I’m sorry you’re going through this. Unfortunately there’s no way to totally understand fertile windows etc, people ovulate early/late all the time which is why natural contraception (IE tracking, natural cycles, etc) unfortunately can result in a lot of unplanned pregnancies (not saying this is your case, just for the sake of the topic). I’m the same with hormonal contraceptives (got pregnant twice on the pill as a very young adult despite taking by the book), the only real safe way aside from hormonal is condoms 100% of the time unfortunately. Sorry you’re in this situation!
@Abi thanks for your reply.. I was thinking this, but just wanted to check I wasn’t miscounting/missing something with my dates. Luckily we’re in a position where we can continue with the pregnancy, but it’s definitely not what I had planned for 2025 🤦🏻♀️
@Alex very likely not you, just your body doing its own thing! Only way you could have a better view for future is to do ovulation tests from when your period ends to see when you spike, and doing for a few months to see if there’s a trend, but still not the safest as you can always have an off month where you ovulate earlier or later than normal. Feel free to message if you need to talk at all, sometimes the best things aren’t planned and turn out to be exactly what was right🙂
@Abi I guess this is true. I’d been tracking for a few years so thought everything was pretty clockwork. I’m trying to sort of surrender to the fact that it’s happened for a reason and just roll with it!
Just out of curiosity, is it really a big deal? 🙈 You’re pregnant which I’m assuming is what you hoped for anyway! I wouldn’t get hung up on dates, the human body can never be fully understood - I really wouldn’t personally spend too much energy on it!