10DPO BFP: What to expect? 🤷‍♀️

Question

Hey ladies, I'm very new to this pregnancy thing. And I have some questions.
1. Apparently I am 4 weeks pregnant since my last Period was March 25th but I know I ovulated on April 13th - so the weeks calculation just seems stupid to me since I'm only 10 DPO. Seems like an inaccurate way to find your due date.😳
2. When is a good time to tell close friends and family? AKA: When is the 'danger zone' for miscarriage about done? 
3. Is there anything I can do to help lower my chance for miscarriage? How impactful is stress?

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Doctors or midwives will use your LMP to date your pregnancy even if you tell them you know when you ovulated, but expect to be measuring smaller than they expect when you actually have an ultrasound since you ovulated later in your cycle. They’ll probably only adjust your due date if you’re measuring more than a week off. 
There’s not really any magic point when the miscarriage rate suddenly drops, it just gets gradually lower and lower every day. In the very beginning it’s close to 30%, by 6 weeks it’s about half that, at 8 weeks it’s below 5%, 10 weeks somewhere around 2%. So it’s scary in the beginning, but every day you stay pregnant your odds get better and better and the change is pretty fast in the first few weeks.
Unfortunately, there isn’t really a whole lot you can do to prevent it. Almost all early miscarriages are a result of chromosomal problems that happened at the moment of conception and made normal development an impossibility. That means there isn’t really anything to do to prevent it, but also means you don’t need to be consumed with fear that you’re going to do something wrong and cause a miscarriage. It’s almost entirely out of your hands.
But do start taking prenatal vitamins immediately if you haven’t already, because folate to prevent neural tube defects is most important in the first 4 weeks after conception!

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I agree the last period date thing seems dumb! Congrats!!

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So My experiences our that calculating by. Like that was very inaccurate with my first but now it is accurate with this second. It can be very exciting to tell people but I miscarried at 9 weeks last time so I'm waiting till 12 weeks when the first trimester ends then it'll end up having less of a misscarry rate.

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My first appt this pregnancy will be at 9 weeks and 1 day so close to my last misscarriage time hoping for the best. This time my symptoms come and go.

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I hate to say this but it's an all honesty there is nothing you can do to prevent a miscarriage sadly it happens not always but sometimes i hope you habe a successful pregnancy🤗

10DPO BFP: What to expect? 🤷‍♀️

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