Pregnancy Calculator

Adding the days on the pregnancy calculator.

A pregnancy calculator is an extremely useful tool as you make your way down the path of pregnancy. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact day of conception, but pregnancy calculators strive to give you a sense of when you can expect to be due. They also serve as a general guide for you to envision the stages of development your baby is in. It is useful, but also exciting, because it helps parents to track their growing baby.

Think of a pregnancy calculator as your own personal alarm clock, set to the time when your baby is ready to enter the world. It is tool that allows you to figure out, as close as possible, the day you will go into labor if you carry your baby to full nine-month gestation. You will also get such a date when you go to your doctor, as doctors use the same method to calculate your due date. It is a general guide to let you know what stage of development your baby is in. Since each baby develops differently, it is not an exact measurement of the what stage of growth you baby is in.

Fertilization of an egg by sperm typically takes place 12 to 15 days before a menstrual cycle. You must know and input the date of your last menstrual cycle, and the pregnancy calculator will figure for those 12 to 15 days. The pregnancy calculator will figure out and give you a timeline of your baby's development.

And be sure to check out our pages about Getting Pregnant, Best Time To Get Pregnant, How To Tell If You Are Pregnant, Pregnancy Symptoms, and Signs Of Pregnancy elsewhere on this site.