This community doesn't seem to be suuuper active but I'm hoping at least a couple people will have some knowledge to answer my question with. ^_
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Everything that ias said, plus, August conception doesn't guarantee April birth-in fact, my older daughter, whose due date was early April (the 6 or 7 depending on who read the dating ultrasound, the 4 when I calculated a due date based on my longer-than-average cycle) was conceived in mid-July. She also wasn't born until mid-April-her birthday is April 18.
(Remember that pregnancy lasts 10 lunar months or about 9 full calendar months, and if you have your heart set on a particular month, count forward three calendar months from the month you ideally want to give birth in to figure out when you need to conceive-so for example if you want to give birth in April, count forward three months-May, June and July.)
As others have said, you can't predict when you'll get pregnant, nor precisely when your baby will be born. Coming off the pill, you also won't have any idea when you'll ovulate-while it's possible that you could ovulate the first cycle, it may take six months to start ovulating again, and if you ovulate at the wrong part of the month for an April birth, then what?
It would be very wise to choose a time to ttc that allows you to go off the pill, give your body plenty of time to start ovulating so you know at what point in the cycle you do...do you ovulate at 14 days or 22, and plan to give birth to a baby at at time when you and your partner can take the time to enjoy having a new baby and becoming a new family.
I was basing the August/April time frame off of a "birth calculator" so I know it's just kind of a rough estimate. I was 2 weeks late being born, personally. I can see what you all are saying about not trying to predict the birth month too much, since babies are going to do what babies are going to do.
Mostly we just wanted to avoid our baby being born in the summer, but after doing some calculating with what you all pointed out, even if I conceived in mid-August the baby might not be born until early or mid-June, which is not what I want.
I think I just got so "OHMYGOSH MUST CONCEIVE NOWWW" because my husband and I finally had the "I'm ready, are you ready?" talk. lol
(Remember that pregnancy lasts 10 lunar months or about 9 full calendar months, and if you have your heart set on a particular month, count forward three calendar months from the month you ideally want to give birth in to figure out when you need to conceive-so for example if you want to give birth in April, count forward three months-May, June and July.)
As others have said, you can't predict when you'll get pregnant, nor precisely when your baby will be born. Coming off the pill, you also won't have any idea when you'll ovulate-while it's possible that you could ovulate the first cycle, it may take six months to start ovulating again, and if you ovulate at the wrong part of the month for an April birth, then what?
It would be very wise to choose a time to ttc that allows you to go off the pill, give your body plenty of time to start ovulating so you know at what point in the cycle you do...do you ovulate at 14 days or 22, and plan to give birth to a baby at at time when you and your partner can take the time to enjoy having a new baby and becoming a new family.
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Mostly we just wanted to avoid our baby being born in the summer, but after doing some calculating with what you all pointed out, even if I conceived in mid-August the baby might not be born until early or mid-June, which is not what I want.
I think I just got so "OHMYGOSH MUST CONCEIVE NOWWW" because my husband and I finally had the "I'm ready, are you ready?" talk. lol
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