Somehow I Lost a Week
Somewhere along the way I lost a week.
An entire week. That can’t be right. How does one lose seven whole days when they have been counting the weeks for months on end? I’m not really sure the answer to that but apparently I’m capable of doing such a thing.
Today was the first of my every-two-weeks OB appointments. As usual my doctor pulled out her little measuring tape to measure my progress. “35 weeks.”, she said.
Woah, what? That can’t be right. “That’s two weeks ahead, right?”, I replied.
“Nope, just one. You are 34 weeks measuring 35 weeks.”
“Oh. That’s farther ahead than I thought. I thought my due date was September 18th.”
“Nope, September 11th.”
Umm…okay. So I guess I’m 34 weeks along not 33 weeks. Which doesn’t seem that significant except I’M NOT READY YET! I still have so much to do. And to buy. And to prepare for.
Plus, if I end up with another c-section—which is likely given my history—it will probably push my due date up another week.
I could be having a baby in just five weeks. That doesn’t seem possible. Five weeks is like a minute away with the speed that time seems to be traveling these days.
oh but that is sooo exciting! I am only 22 weeks and can’t wait to meet my little guy! But as with my first, I had a c-section at 39 weeks, so I understand how you are feeling!
meanwhile i just switched obgyns and the new one was reading my chart and feeling my belly and looking perplexed… and he ordered another ultrasound because he thinks i’m LESS pregnant than my former midwife said i was!! i’ll find out the truth tomorrow!! either way finding out you are more or less pregnant really messes with your head! but i’m very jealous because i don’t love being pregnant and i can’t wait for it to be over!!!!
Be really careful letting them move a C-section up a week on ya – especially if it’s just a tape-measure measurement that caused the shift. Because a baby can stretch a certain way and change the measurement a great deal. Once my baby was posterior and I was measuring two weeks “behind” what I knew my dates were….during the course of the appointment the midwife helped turn the baby and suddenly I was a week ahead. 3 Weeks growth in 30 minutes! LOL!
hmmm…. my due date is september 18th as well, and I am 33 weeks along as of yesterday…. I also measured high, but on further ultrasound inspection, I was actually measuring a week behind!! At this stage in the game, it’s pretty hard to get an accurate read anyway… but…
can you request an ultrasound or a second opinion??
It would suck to get induced or pressured into a section based on measurements alone :/
That same exact thing happened to me, except two weeks! I went to the doctors at 29 weeks and I measured in at 31 weeks, they ended up doing an ultrasound to confirm it. For the entire pregnancy I was on track, how on earth I lost two weeks is possible I’m not sure. I was due August 20th now they say the baby can cone any day. I haven’t even had my baby shower, I’m so not prepared for a baby. Good luck and I hope everything goes okay with you.
This is why IVF is nice for this problem! I know exactly when I conceived!
I lost about 10 days according to my measurements. And I lost about 15 days according to my ultrasounds. But I’m not changing my estimated due date of October 3rd. I started getting symptoms of pregnancy mid January. Even after I missed my period my pregnancy tests would come back negative. It drove me crazy. Finally on February 10th I went to get a pregnancy test at the doctor’s and that came back positive. My LMP was two days after Xmas. I believe I conceived mid January and started getting symptoms immediately. I know my body better than anyone. I’m not going to change how far along I am after every measurement or ultrasound. It would drive me bananas.