Pregnancy & Fertility
12 articles in this pillar.
How Your Due Date Is Calculated (and Why It's an Estimate)
Four methods, one number, and a wide range of normal. What Naegele's rule assumes, why ultrasound usually wins, and what the date actually means.
Read articleOvulation and the Fertile Window: How to Time Conception
Why the fertile window is six days rather than one, where the day-14 assumption goes wrong, and what tracking methods actually tell you.
Read articlePregnancy Weight Gain: What's Recommended and Why It's a Range
The Institute of Medicine ranges by pre-pregnancy BMI, where the weight actually goes, and why the trajectory matters more than the total.
Read articleFirst Trimester Timeline: What's Happening Week by Week
The first thirteen weeks in outline — development, symptoms, appointments, and what's worth calling about.
Read articleUnderstanding Your Cycle Length: What's Normal and What's Not
What counts as a normal cycle, why the two phases behave differently, and which irregularities are worth investigating.
Read articleDue Date Accuracy by Method: LMP vs. Ultrasound vs. IVF
Four ways to date a pregnancy, accurate to anywhere from one day to two weeks. Which one your date came from tells you how much to trust it — and what happens when two of them disagree.
Read articlePregnancy Week by Week: What Each Trimester Actually Means
Why week 1 happens before you're pregnant, where the trimester boundaries really fall, and what the numbers in a week-by-week chart are actually measuring.
Read articleConception vs. Implantation: What the Calculators Assume
Three separate events happen over about two weeks, and they get conflated constantly. Knowing which is which explains why early tests come back negative on real pregnancies.
Read articleHow to Predict Your Next Period Accurately (and Why Apps Disagree)
Cycle prediction is simple arithmetic on a number most people measure wrong. How to count a cycle properly, how far ahead the maths holds up, and why two apps give you two different dates.
Read articleHow Far Along Am I? Reading Pregnancy Dates Without the Confusion
Why you were two weeks pregnant before you conceived, what '8w 4d' means, which dating method actually wins, and why your app and your midwife disagree by one week.
Read articleThe Four Phases of the Menstrual Cycle, Explained Properly
What each phase is actually doing, why only one of them varies in length, and what 'regular' means clinically — which is not 28 days.
Read articlehCG Levels in Early Pregnancy: What the Numbers Do and Don't Mean
Why 'doubles every 48 hours' is only half true, why the 66% rule is out of date, and why a single hCG value tells you almost nothing.
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