Just yesterday we showed you a calendar to quickly calculate what the probable date of delivery will be based on when the last rule was given. That date is indicative and not very concrete, since very few women end up giving birth when they "go out of accounts", so perhaps it would be more correct to call it an unlikely birth date.
The fact is that future mothers usually have the date recorded in their minds and, suddenly, on the first ultrasound, the gynecologist resets that date based on the size of the child. This occurs because the size of the babies in the first weeks of pregnancy is practically identical, so by measuring some parameters (the size of the femur, the cranial circumference, ...) it is possible to know quite accurately at what time of pregnancy it is Find the baby.
However, despite this readjustment, most mothers often fail to meet the probable date of delivery and therefore it may be interesting to ask: What is the use of knowing the probable date of delivery?
Every baby has its rhythm and every mother also
We all know that there are babies that take longer to leave and others that take less, however it is now also known that there are ethnicities that have longer pregnancies than others and this means that Not only do babies have their own rhythm, but mothers do too.
For example, Caucasian women who are mothers for the first time usually give birth about 5 days after the same mothers when they are going to give birth to their second or third (or fourth ...) child. African Americans and Asians, meanwhile, tend to have shorter gestations.
So, knowing this, what else they tell us is that the baby is 12 weeks and 3 days old if the time he needs to get pregnant is undetermined.
It is considered normal to give birth two weeks before or two later
Another issue to keep in mind is that, at the time of giving birth, the baby born after 38 weeks and the one born before 42 weeks is considered a full-term baby. That is There is a period of no less than 28 days when the baby is born normally because it is his turn to be born. Twenty-eight days are many days and very likely that the probable date of delivery is not given.
From all this it can be deduced that knowing the date of childbirth only serves to have control of where we are and where we are going, which is not a little, but that often causes endless nerves and questions that can bother some mothers a lot.
What, not yet?
When a woman "goes out of account" her life and that of her surroundings begins to revolve around her birth. People start calling to ask, to say how well the baby is inside and why they don't want to go out, to ask if not yet, to talk about inductions and caesarean sections and the mother usually ends up getting too nervous or feeling that something is going bad, because the probable date of delivery passes and thinks that he is not able to give birth to his baby.
That is why this date should be relativized a lot and just start to give it importance when you reach week 42, when you have to start assessing which way to go since, from that moment, the placenta may not provide all the oxygen and nutrients that the baby needs.
