Please tell me I’m not the only one who didn’t know this...

[AME93]

So I've been doing a lot of googling. Somehow I didn't realize that a period isn't considered late until around 5-7 days(different sources say different numbers) after you expected it to start. So if it's been six days since the day you thought it would start then your period is actually only considered one day late. I always thought you count from the day you expected it to come, not from when it should've come and gone. Have I understood that correctly??? Am I the only one who had this wrong? Haha feeling so stupid.

I had no idea! This means that my period isn't even classed as late yet, and I'm nearly 5 weeks?

I also didn't know for ages that you dated the pregnancy from the day of your last period...

Yes this is true. I'm not sure why to be honest. My period was due on the 17th however it didn't consider me late until the 21st. I still consider myself late from the 17th though!

I think that’s supposed to be the normal level of variation in cycle length but obviously if you have regular periods then you’d be able to tell it’s actually late (rather than just a longer cycle) earlier.