Why do doctors ...

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If you can only conceive during ovulation phase then why do doctors calculate your due date according to your last period? 🤔 explain

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Because they can't pinpoint the exact day of ovulation. Not every woman ovulated exactly two weeks after a period. Everyone's cycles are just a little different. If they base it off of the first day of your last period, they get a more exact date until a dating ultrasound can be performed.

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I literally got pregnant during my period

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Cycles can be very irregular. I almost never ovulate around cd14. With my current pregnancy it was cd20/21. And even if you know exactly when you ovulated, you have no way to know exactly when you have implantation. So, it’s just easiest to go by LMP and then adjust as needed with a dating scan (ultrasound).

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Well, women are more likely to know when their last period was than to know when they ovulated.
Also, doctors have been calculating due dates based off last period since before the female cycle was well-understood.

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