but they still insist on using their 'high-tech' spinny wheel with an average 28 day cycle


I know exactly what you mean there - my cycles were 25 days so that thing was always wrong.

allboys - its beyond frustrating when they simply refuse to listen isnt it? I know its a bit late now but this is why I avoided doctors until I was about 20 weeks. The pressure you are put under because of some of this stuff is horrible.

However I was more than willing to take the latter date myself. My LMP and short cycles gave me the 26th of June Being a girl I knew I could add up to 4 days to that and came up with the 30th. They did one ultrasound ad decided from the femur length I was 23wks along which put me at Mid July. I had a clearly overcooked baby with a jellied placenta on the 11th. She was just tiny putting their ridiculous dating well off the mark. But at least no one was trying to force my baby from my womb before she was ready.

Take heart - I know its at that point where you are over it and you want it over with and this wont make much of a difference but you know she will come out when she is ready. She'll probably be out before the 7th anyway.