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Pregnancy & Cycle

Due date, conception, ovulation, and pregnancy weight gain calculators — timeline tools for fertility and pregnancy.

Eight calculators covering the menstrual cycle, conception, pregnancy dating and healthy gain. They connect: the cycle tools predict your fertile window, conception works backwards from a due date, and the due date drives everything after it.

All of them are estimates around an average, and pregnancy is unusually variable. Even measured from implantation, normal pregnancies span about five weeks in length — which is why every output here is better read as a range than a date.

Which one you need

The eight pregnancy and cycle calculators.
Where you areUseGives you
Tracking your cyclePeriodSix cycles of period dates and fertile windows on a calendar
Wondering what phase you are inMenstrual CycleToday's cycle day and phase, plus a regularity assessment
Trying to conceiveOvulationYour fertile window for the next three cycles
Newly pregnantDue DateDue date plus a dated 42-week timeline
Pregnant and asking how far alongPregnancyGestational age in weeks and days from any date you know
Working backwardsConceptionThe likely conception window from a due or birth date
Pregnant and tracking weightPregnancy Weight GainRecommended gain from your pre-pregnancy BMI
Holding two early blood resultshCG Doubling TimeDoubling time and 48-hour rise, against published ranges

The counting conventions that confuse everyone

Three quirks account for most of the confusion in this category, and none of them means anything is wrong.

Week 1 is before you are pregnant
Pregnancy is counted from the first day of your last period, about two weeks before conception. By the time a test is positive you are called four weeks pregnant. The convention exists because the period date is knowable and the conception date is not.
The week number is one above your gestational age
At 8 weeks and 4 days you have completed 8 weeks and are in week 9 — the same way a one-year-old is in their second year. Both figures are correct and both appear on the calculator.
The fertile window closes at ovulation, not after
It opens five days before ovulation and shuts within a day of it, because sperm survive up to five days while an egg lasts 12 to 24 hours. By the time most people detect ovulation, the window has passed.

How much to trust the dates

  • IVF transfer: accurate to about a day. The only case where conception is known rather than estimated.
  • First-trimester ultrasound: ±5–7 days, and the method every guideline prefers. If it disagrees with your period dates by more than a week, the scan is what your care team will use.
  • Last menstrual period: ±1–2 weeks with regular cycles, less with irregular ones. Assumes a 28-day cycle and ovulation on day 14.
  • Later ultrasound: ±2–3 weeks. Good for assessing growth, poor for dating, which is why due dates are not revised late.

None of this replaces your care team

These calculators inform; they do not monitor. Bleeding, reduced fetal movement, severe headache or contractions before 37 weeks all warrant contacting your midwife or doctor immediately, whatever any page here says about your dates.

Frequently asked questions

Almost always because the app used your period dates, which assume a 28-day cycle with ovulation on day 14. If you ovulated later, the period-based date reads further along than you are. The scan measures the pregnancy rather than assuming anything, and it is what your care team will use.

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