Due Date Question....

[hmr11913]

So since I know the day that I ovulated, thanks to temping & using OPK's, I'm able to know what my exact due date would be... July 5th. My DR's office however, is going based off of my LMP, which would give me a due date of July 7th. 

I realize this isn't even a big deal and it's only 2 days, but which date do you go by personally? 

[backstreetpixie]

If I knew my exact ovulation date I would go by that. But also babies hardly ever come on their due date anyway. Lol =) after all, it is just an estimate.

[hmr11913]

I totally agree! I'm just always so excited when I make it to a new week, that I feel like saying I'm 17 weeks on Sunday is more exciting than 17 weeks on the following Tuesday. DUMB, I know!! LOL.

[natalie115]

Well it sounds like your doc is going to be using the July 7th date so I would just go by that.

I O about CD 21 so my EDDs are a week different, my doc knows that so I get an early dating ultrasound. However my OB doesn't chnage due dates unless there's a week or more difference between the U/S and LMP. This time I was 6 days different and she let me choose which date I wanted to use. I went with my EDD based on O date so nobody would be trying to induce me too early.

[Deleted]

I know my O date as well and did IUI that day, so that's the date the OB is using. My first ultrasound measured exactly right and the 2 since then I've measured a few days ahead. My OB is sticking with the original date.

I'd go with whatever the Dr is using and just assume the LO won't come that day.

[BookishMomma]

Jan 22, 2015 13:05:53 GMT -5 backstreetpixie said:

If I knew my exact ovulation date I would go by that. But also babies hardly ever come on their due date anyway. Lol =) after all, it is just an estimate.

My water broke with my DS on my due date. Just sayin'...

But, really, your ovulation estimation is probably more accurate. Have your ultrasounds been measuring consistent with either your LMP or O date? Not that it really matters if they are only 2 days apart. Just curious.

[uneek]

I would probably go with the date your doctor gave you because that's the date that's going to follow you through the whole pregnancy and 2 days is not a big difference.

[heathersf11]

I decided to go by my O date. It was only a day off from what the doctor originally measured. Since the initial scan, my LO has been measuring about three days ahead, so my O date is probably closer.

[hmr11913]

Jan 22, 2015 14:37:15 GMT -5 BookishMomma said:

My water broke with my DS on my due date. Just sayin'...

But, really, your ovulation estimation is probably more accurate. Have your ultrasounds been measuring consistent with either your LMP or O date? Not that it really matters if they are only 2 days apart. Just curious.

My u/s's have both been 3 days ahead of my LMP.... so, 1 day ahead of my O date. 

I think that for me, I'm going to go with my O date... I know the 2 days don't really matter, but sometimes when I make it to another week, I feel like well TECHNICALLY, I made it to that week 2 days ago. 

[BookishMomma]

Jan 22, 2015 14:46:31 GMT -5 hmr11913 said:

Jan 22, 2015 14:37:15 GMT -5 BookishMomma said:

My water broke with my DS on my due date. Just sayin'...

But, really, your ovulation estimation is probably more accurate. Have your ultrasounds been measuring consistent with either your LMP or O date? Not that it really matters if they are only 2 days apart. Just curious.

My u/s's have both been 3 days ahead of my LMP.... so, 1 day ahead of my O date. 

I think that for me, I'm going to go with my O date... I know the 2 days don't really matter, but sometimes when I make it to another week, I feel like well TECHNICALLY, I made it to that week 2 days ago. 

Sounds reasonable to me 

[kate6214]

I'd just go with the one your doctor is using. I know mentally it's nice to have those 2 extra days, but that's what they will be using. A few days shouldn't make that much difference in the end.

[grailseeker14]

I know exactly when I "ovulated" since I did IVF, but my RE *and* my OB still go by my LMP, which was one day off from the EDD based on ovulation. Like pp have said, I'd roll with the one the doc gives you. It may adjust one way or another down the road, and of course baby will come when they're darn well ready. Remember, it's just an ESTIMATED due date. A day or two difference won't be that big of a deal as far as planning goes, I don't think.

[hmr11913]

I know that it won't matter in terms of when the baby will actually come...... I just meant when people ask "What's your due date??" Although maybe I should say the later date, that way if baby doesn't come on time I won't be so irritated with everyone asking ha ha.

[flippinchica]

I had a trigger shot so I know when I ovulated and the ultrasound is closer to that date than LMP date. My OB still wanted to stick with the LMP date even though she acknowledged that with the trigger we know when I ovulated. For me it is the opposite, by the LMP date I turn a new week 4 days earlier so it feels like I'm "cheating" when I say I'm 11w2d since by O I'm actually 10w5d. I keep trying to tell myself that it doesn't really matter but am also having trouble accepting it.

[taberbtb]

I also know the exact date of ovulation although my EDD is one day later than the date I calculated based off my first u/s. I just go by my own date since I know it and realize that in the end 1 day doesn't really make a difference anyways!

[hmr11913]

Thanks for the input ladies!!