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Is the EPU scan accurate in dating conception?

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geordieAshleigh · 19/07/2010 14:33

Hi ladies,

I'm going to be very honest on here as i'm in a complete pickle and don't know what to do. I used to have very irregular periods when i was a bit younger (i'm 26 now) and came off the pill only in February. Ever since coming off the pill i've been fairly regular and sometimes even exactly on time! Me and my boyfriend were happily sleeping together (using condoms) and we slept together exactly 2 weeks to the day after the first day of my last period. I then went on holiday with a friend and while i was away he said he didn't know if he wanted to be with me anymore (over the phone!) I went out and got very very drunk and slept with a guy who i'd met on holiday twice (both in the last few days of my holiday) which was only a few days before i was due for my period. The last few days of my holiday i felt odd and different and even fainted on the flight home. A week later i realised i was late, took a pregnancy test and was pregnant! Me and my boyfriend got back together when i came back and obviously i told him what happened. I have been for 2 EPU scans to try to determine dates and the first said it was most likely the guy on holiday and the second couldn't date it, she was completely out! Sorry for the rambling but my question is simply, can they be wrong and the baby is my boyfriends and not the fling on holiday??? I really want to keep this baby!!!
Any words of wisdom on the subject would be much appreciated, thanks so much!!!
Ash x

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chocciechip · 19/07/2010 15:59

ash Scans can be wrong but I think become slightly more certain as weeks go by, so it might be worth checking with them again. In the meantime, have you crunched your dates as much as you can?

Sperm can live for up to five days, but I think most people work on about 3 days. So to be pg it must come from unprotected sex that happened about 5 days before ovulation or possibly in the days leading up to ovulation. It is possible to get pregnant if you have sex one day after ovulation, but this is less common.

Also, implantation of a fertilised egg takes 7-10 days and I think in most cases people only start to feel pg symptoms after implantation when hcg levels start to rise. I'm not sure your body really knows you are pg until implantation happens. So .... if you had sex with the guy on holiday and then felt odd about three days later, it suggests that it might be from sex much earlier.

Finally, how long after your period did you first get a positive test? You can get a positive test as early as 10 days after ovulation (I assume if the egg implanted at around day 7), but this is not as common as people think. Its more common to get a positive result when your period is first due or in the days immediately before your period is due.

If I were you I'd try and draw all this on a calendar and then work out possibilities if you factor in times with both men.

Hopefully someone will come along and set me straight if I've got it wrong.

But ultimately the scans are probably your best guide if you need to make critical decisions, and a dna test afterwards to be totally sure.

Good luck.

geordieAshleigh · 19/07/2010 17:31

Hi chocciechip (a great name)!

Thank you so much for the comments and your advice, i've just been through my calendar and dates etc and there is literally a week - 10 days in it!

According to my cycle for the last 6 months or so, me and my boyfriend slept together only 1 day before i should have ovulated. I've been told before that implantation takes about a week and thats when you feel the symptoms which would make the baby my boyfriends as i felt odd around 7-10 days after we slept together. It was actually at this time when i slept with the guy on holiday, which makes it seem less likely to be with him.

I did a test on the day my period was due but it was late in the evening and i had been out for a few drinks with my friend, this test was negative. Then a few days later i did another one and it was positive. The lady at the EPU scan had said that it is possible for your urine to be diluted and so it can show negative this early on which i hope is true!

I think it is the scan that has thrown me a bit as both of them have not indicated my boyfriend as being the father however this could be as there is only 1 week in between. Lots of thing point to my boyfriend being the father though and also, a few months ago we had unprotected sex just a few days before i was due and i had a normal period, i wasn't pregnant.

If i am correct i should be 8+5 however the EPU scan said 7+1-5!

Would you suggest waiting a couple of weeks just incase the beano is simply just growing very slowly? I've read that that can happen sometimes.....

Thanks, Ash

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