Dan is wrong
I respectfully disagree with Dr. Mazzucco. Based on the standard method of calculating a due date from last menstrual period (called Naegele's rule), you subtract three months and add 1 week to the first date of the last menstrual period to get the due date. So, for example, if your last period started on December 11 or 12, your due date would be September 18 or 19, and you are likely to have conceived on December 25 or 26. All this assumes a regular 28 day cycle. This means that if Dan's actual due date was October 1, he was conceived on or around January 6. Let's all take a moment of silence in honor of that special event.
Perhaps this is too much information for most people. However, when you spend 8 years and $100000 on your education and spend your days with small children, you have to exercise your unused knowledge when the opportunity arises.
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Yes, Shannon is right. Knowing the dates involved for myself, I tried subtlely to point out the important events took place before New Years in an earlier post. It seems Shannon's direct approach was better suited.
Now, can we please stop analyzing the menstrual cycles and possible conception dates for the current BLD babies on the way? It is indeed true that every random person with Internet access can read this blog and I think enough personal information has been shared.
Wouldn't this formula be influenced by the number of 31 day months intervening and whether it's a leap year?
And more importantly, when does the storks flight pattern get factored in?
Because my mom told me that there was a stork involved.
Let's look closely at what Shannon said:
1) Dan is wrong.
2) A Bunch of stuff basically agreeing with Dan
3) Reiterating that Dan is wrong, pointing out that she went to medical school and I didn't.
Let me clarify what I said before:
being born on Oct 1. didn't mean I was conceived on new years' eve, even though that's what I thought for most of my life.
Let me supplement that by saying I don't have a medical degree and don't claim to have learned that in any school.
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