thread: Due Date - Interesting fact from my Ob.

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  1. #1
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    Nov 2008
    Lake Macquarie, NSW
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    I only wish we had looked at the dates again before we came so far. Even though I know that I am only five days over 40 weeks because I have been looking at 3 May as my due date for so long I think I have brainwashed myself into believing this date - I actually thought that the 3 May was my date as we have three dates written on our ante-natal record (24/4, 3/5 and 9/5) then when I rechecked it wasn't; it was the date they provided at the NT scan & for some reason I took this on board as the due date.

    Funny thing I remember when I was having the NT scan the woman doing the scan asked if we had had a dating scan & I said no, we knew when conception was so we didn't think we needed one. She must have done it then.

    I am not usually so easily hoodwinked but the NT scan was a very anxious time for us as this was the time in my two previous pregnancies that we found out our babies had died. I can only think I (we) were so overwhelmed by the heartbeat and good results that we weren't focusing on the dates. On top of that I was very very sick & on the verge of being admitted to hospital so there was a lot going on.

    It is good that I did look though before any decisions were made around the date....phew!

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    Feb 2010
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    i know the feeling of confusion hun, last week my docs realised that they have 3 due dates for me, and they are 4/6, 11/6 and 18/6!!
    we had been going with 18/6 but then saw that this was the dating scan, with my dates from my cycle my due date is 4/6. im not really complaining too much as this gives me a greater window before they start wanting to induce me for being overdue but still really inconvenient!!

    hope u avoid induction, it would be much better to let bubs decide when to appear!