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due date changes?
Ok I have just found a bit in my maternity notes about due dates etc.
When we got pregnant we worked out due date from dates etc at 23rd July then at my 12 week scan they changed date to 18th July which at the time I thought was fine but now as dates approach and going overdue etc looms I can see that this is actually a big difference in terms of time for bubs to cook.
Now in my notes I have found the following 'If the due date by scan and te due date by periods agree within seven days , then the due date by periods can be confirmed as your agreed due date'. So according to that I could ask for my agreed due date to be the 23rd - is that what you read it as too??? Do you think I should have already mentioned this or could I now???
Any ideas - no one has ever told me this before!!!
When we got pregnant we worked out due date from dates etc at 23rd July then at my 12 week scan they changed date to 18th July which at the time I thought was fine but now as dates approach and going overdue etc looms I can see that this is actually a big difference in terms of time for bubs to cook.
Now in my notes I have found the following 'If the due date by scan and te due date by periods agree within seven days , then the due date by periods can be confirmed as your agreed due date'. So according to that I could ask for my agreed due date to be the 23rd - is that what you read it as too??? Do you think I should have already mentioned this or could I now???
Any ideas - no one has ever told me this before!!!
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you can speak to midwife and see what she says x
Good luck.
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this is why i always refer to J being bron at 36/37weeks. By our dates its 37weeks, but by her 12 week scan they changed the dates so she was born at 36weeks.
I think the difference was 6days and the date stays on the notes. We didnt ahve out first scan until 14weeks which i ahve since been told is less accurate the longer you leave it past 12 weeks.
Obviously it made a difference for us as it meant I had to stay in due to her being classed as a prem. However as you are 39weeks pregnant it shouldnt make any difference as from 37weeks onwards all babies are classed as term.
You could always mention it to your mw if you are concerned about being given an induction at wat they considerr to be 42weeks when your dates show 41weeks.
As me29 says, they should be able to tell by a scan if the baby is okay to be delivered or not.
Try not to stress too much over it hun, if at all worried or concerned speak to your mw.
However, when I went overdue and they couldn't book me for induction until 42+1 (instead of their policy of inducing no later than 41+6) THEN they changed my due date so that they were within their policy guidelines!! So ridiculous.
At the end of the day due dates don't really mean diddly - they are only a guide and you should assume you could go two weeks either side. In France they apparently only give you a month within which you should deliver, rather than a specific day (don't know who told me that so it's probably wrong lol!).
Try not to worry, everything will be fine. As it happens my stoopid hospital didn't even have beds available on the day I was booked for induction and I ended up giving birth naturally at 42+2 with no induction at all - and Toby was absolutely fine. I was terrified he was going to be huge after being so late but he was only (!) 8lb 4oz which is only just above average.
Knowing everything I know now I wouldn't actually want to be induced until at least 42 weeks next time - I would want to give the baby a chance to do things on his own as sometimes I guess they just need a bit longer (unless there was something else going on and they recommended induction). I like to think he wanted to stay in longer because he liked it in there so much
Good luck with everything!!! You will be fine.
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The hospital didn't want to budge on my dates despite me saying that I never bd at around the time they said I conceived. I know sperm can live for up to 48hrs but not nearly 2 weeks surely?
Good luck with it all.
I understand your concern with your history but if your hospitals policy is to induce at say 12 days overdue then you would still be 7 days overdue by your dates so baby will still definately be fully cooked!
I would show the bit you found to your midwife and ask if they will go by your LMP dates instead. You can always discuss with them you not wanting to be induced too if they insist on going with their own dates.
I would be very interested to know what they say if you refuse induction.