8 weeks 6 days pregnant when did i conceive

How far along you are determines nearly everything in your pregnancy including blood tests, ultrasound examinations, and more importantly when you can expect your baby to be born.  It also helps you identify certain situations to learn what is normal and when to have procedures done. What is normal at 26 weeks may not be normal at 32 weeks. Also, tests that should be done at 20 weeks but are done at 16 weeks could be interpreted incorrectly.

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“When exactly did I get pregnant” is a difficult question to answer precisely because calculating conception is done by using the first day of your last menstrual period or an ultrasound date.

Use our Pregnancy Calculator to calculate these dates for you.

Calculating Gestational Age

Last Menstrual Period

If the mother has a regular period and knows the first day of her last menstrual period, gestational age can be calculated from this date. Gestational age is calculated from the first day of the mother’s last menstrual period and not from the date of conception. A pregnancy wheel is often used to calculate gestational age.

Ultrasound

 The baby can be measured as early as 5 or 6 weeks after the mother’s last menstrual period. Measuring the baby using ultrasound is most accurate in early pregnancy. It becomes less accurate later in pregnancy. The best time to estimate gestational age using ultrasound is between the 8th and 18th weeks of pregnancy. The most accurate way to determine gestational age is using the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period and confirming this gestational age with the measurement from an ultrasound exam.

Calculating Conception Date

In a Typical Pregnancy

For a woman with a regular period, conception typically occurs about 11-21 days after the first day of the last period. Most women do not know the exact date of conception because it can be challenging to know exactly when ovulation occurs. Thus, their conception date is merely an estimate based on the first day of their last period.

Special Cases

Women who undergo special procedures, such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization, typically know the exact date of conception.

Calculating Estimated Due Date

Based on the last menstrual period, the estimated due date is 40 weeks from the first day of the period. This is just an estimate since only about 5% of babies are born on their estimated due date.

Difficulties in Determining the Gestational Age

Last Menstrual Period

For women who have irregular menstrual periods or women who cannot remember the first day of their last menstrual period, it can be difficult to determine gestational age using this method. In these cases, an ultrasound exam is often required to determine gestational age.

Baby’s Growth

In some cases, it is difficult to determine the gestational age because the baby is unusually large or small. Also, in some cases, the size of the uterus in early pregnancy or the height of the uterus in later pregnancy does not match the first day of the last menstrual period. In these cases as well, it is difficult to obtain an accurate gestational age.

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How do I know the exact date I got pregnant?

A reverse due date calculator is helpful if you already know your due date and you want to find out when you got pregnant. To find out when you conceived, just subtract 266 days from your expected delivery date. You probably conceived around that day.

When did I conceive based on how many weeks I am?

To estimate your conception date based on your menstrual cycle, simply add approximately two weeks from the first day of the last menstrual period you had before you became pregnant. This should give you the start of your ovulation period, when your body is most fertile and likely to become pregnant.

When did I conceive by due date?

For a regular 28-day cycle, pregnancy is estimated to be 280 days, or 40 weeks, from your last menstrual period, and 266 days, or 38 weeks, from the date of ovulation. Therefore, to calculate the most likely date of conception, you need to subtract 266 days from your estimated due date.

When did you conceive if you're 6 weeks pregnant?

The reason doctors still use the last menstrual cycle as a benchmark is because it is difficult to know exactly when the sperm fertilized the egg. So when doctors say a woman is six weeks pregnant, it typically means the embryo started developing about four weeks ago.