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Midwife calculating wrong due date? Anyone had this?

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Leleophants · 11/04/2019 11:42

I've had my booking appointment and the due date is a week earlier than my early scan and working it out from last period! All my apps, early scan and own calculations work it out a week later. Doesn't fill me with hope! Or do the measure from a week before your period starts? So confusing!

I also didn't get asked any question by myself about domestic violence so maybe she was just a bit rubbish? Annoying it's all on my notes though.

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MaverickSnoopy · 11/04/2019 16:18

Brush it off and wait and see what happens at the scan.

I had this exact same thing but at my dating scan. I knew my dates - only one day I could have fallen pregnant and didn't have sex at all the month before due to illness. Nonetheless the sonographer told me I was 13.5 weeks at my scan instead of 12, which in theory meant that I was pregnant before my last period, which I knew wasn't possible as I hadn't had sex that month. Also had regular 28 day periods. When I said this she shrugged me off. All I did was an inward eye roll.

As it happens I was induced at 13 days overdue. I'm convinced I wasn't overdue at all. I do have very long babies - very long - and I suspect this was the reason. However, unless you experience the same at your dating scan then your midwife will soon be corrected. Try not to dwell on it.

Newmumma83 · 11/04/2019 16:20

I worked out my baby was due 23/11/18

The sonographer worked out the 17/11/18

He was born 23/11/18 ... he was covered in the white stuff too so unlikely he was late ... I think a week either side is easy to get wrong x x

Newmumma83 · 11/04/2019 16:20

P.s midwife didn’t work out when he was due I told her because I had already worked it out 😂😂

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 11/04/2019 16:35

As it happens I was induced at 13 days overdue. I'm convinced I wasn't overdue at all. I do have very long babies - very long - and I suspect this was the reason

Me too @mavericksnoopy

I’ve told any health professional who will listen I was born at 42w and my granny’s six babies were all “10 monthers”

EnjoyItAll · 11/04/2019 17:00

sounds so like my first appointment! I was dated a week earlier too but knew she was wrong. I didn't say anything at the time but after 12 week scan I mentioned dates at the midwife appointment so she was aware it was wrong

EnjoyItAll · 11/04/2019 17:03

also my husband was there and she asked about 4 times if I was married to put that in single. I've shrugged it all off as it will irrelevant in the grand scheme of things

Ginger1982 · 11/04/2019 17:05

Is this your first? Honestly you are getting worked up over nothing! Once you have your dating scan it won't matter. I say this as someone who has had ICSI where every last detail, literally down to the minute of conception, is noted somewhere!

keepingspiritsup · 11/04/2019 18:59

To be fair to your poor midwife she isn't going to ask about DV with your husband in the room!

jcq17 · 12/04/2019 07:31

My due date has changed 3 times it really doesn't matter 🤷🏼‍♀️

Sessy19 · 12/04/2019 07:48

Midwives are leaving the NHS in droves... the latest completely thankless care role. I’m almost apologetic when I call my midwife, knowing that she has about 40 anxious and hormonal women demanding of her. Poor beast 😔

Still, it is easy to forget that women have been birthing literally since time began and that we could probably do it all without one! Maybe one day we will have too if they all get scared off the profession.

PixieDust26 · 12/04/2019 07:53

My due date changed only by a few days and I never got asked about DV 🤷🏻‍♀️

CostanzaG · 12/04/2019 07:56

It's the same with sonographers. It wasn't that long ago that women didn't have any scans when pregnant.

Now my sonographer friend spends hours every week dealing with complaints.... The most common being that she won't write the babies sex on a piece of paper so they have a gender reveal party, that they couldn't see the baby clearly on the picture or that she won't allow large groups or children in the room while carrying out an important medical procedure.

All that time wasted which could be spent actually scanning.

CostanzaG · 12/04/2019 07:57

*baby's

mrsed1987 · 12/04/2019 08:26

My due date changed 3 times and i had my DS 2 weeks before it anyway.

I was asked about dv twice, but i was on my own at the appointments when she asked

HJWT · 12/04/2019 08:58

@Leleophants it honestly doesnt matter in the slightest, also early scans are irrelevant, you will be given your final due date at your 12 week scan, I had an early scan with the NHS a couple of weeks before my dating scan and when I had my dating scan my due date moved again another 2 days, from the size of the baby I got pregnant a week before my period started! But they don't care they just go of the length of the baby!

It becomes very confusing, but I clearly just have longer than average baby's as DD was the same, I was 12 weeks 1 day with her and she measured 13 weeks 1 day! She is now 2.5 years and all anyone ever says to me is 'Wow she is tall for her age' 😂 don't worry to much! They print the sheet out from the scan and tape it in, they don't really look at your old notes after that.

SherlockSays · 12/04/2019 09:01

I like the bit where you said 'she didn't even look at the scan' as if you took your early scan picture along in the first place - what did you think she was going to do with it?

It really doesn't matter if your due date is a week out etc. Baby will come when he/she comes.

Lost5stone · 12/04/2019 09:08

You are getting quite worked up over nothing. Chill out a bit, otherwise this pregnancy will drive you mad.

Doesn't matter about dates as once you have your official dating scan they will use that date anyway.

DV wise, you have so many appointments, she will just wait until you attend one without your husband. Doesn't make her unprofessional at all.

AnotherRubberDuck · 12/04/2019 09:17

It took me a while to realise my MW was asking about DV, every appointment she asks "is everything alright at home?" and I totally thought she was asking if I had a roof over my head or something.
Wasn't until later when I was googling what the boxes on the notes meant that I realised what she was actually asking

This is my third pregnancy

Cookit · 12/04/2019 10:30

I really don’t think it matters?

My current pregnancy was dated off my last “period” which was a miscarriage. I knew it couldn’t have been the right date but at 8 weeks booking in does it matter?

12 weeks scan dates you and they go from there, so from 12 weeks on the midwives only looked at the dating scan due date and not the date they had originally guesstimated.

If you’ve had early scans which match the dates you have in your head then surely at 12 weeks you’ll be put onto correct date, no?

Cookit · 12/04/2019 10:32

And at a lot of the midwife surgeries I’ve been at they’ve had some sort of sticker system for DV. So you get sent to the loo for a sample and if you want help you put a sticker on your sample, provided on the door of the loo.
I don’t think anyone has ever come out as asked me in any pregnancy, but they ask questions around the issue and use the sticker thing.
Also don’t see why this matters unless you need to talk to MW about DV?

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