New GF pregnancy Scare

Don Keypunch

I though someone here might be able to help me out with this probelm. It all started about a month ago when I met a girl at a friends birthday party, when got chatting throughout the night and one thing led to another and we ended up doing the wild thing. We kept on seeing each other since but in the last week I noticed that something was up with her, but just couldnt quite put my finger on it, sort of like a sixth sence or something. Anyways fast forward to yesterday and she tells me that she is 3 weeks late for her period, I suggested that she should go to the doctor. She went to her GP and he took a blood sample and she found out today that she is six weeks pregnant. How have I such strong sperm that it caused her pregnacy to devolop at such an increased rate?

Cheap Thrills!

3 weeks late means she is 5 weeks preggers, but the doc might be giving/taking a few days so her story is perfectly plausable.

They count the pregnancy from the first day of her last period so even while ye were doing the wild thing she was technically 2 weeks pregnant if you get me.

Science. Its true.

Contessa Raven

Hi OP,

If you met her a month ago and she's 6 weeks pregnant then the child cannot be yours. Unless the doctor got it wrong which is unlikely but not impossible.

Pregnancy does not develop at different "rates". If she is 6 weeks pregnant then she had to have conceived 6 weeks ago, which would mean she was 2 weeks pregnant when you met. She prob didn't know as it takes usually 3-5 weeks for most women to notice any symptoms.

CR

Nevyn

Pregnancy is counted from the first day of the last period.
Conceptions happens some where around week 2/3 so by the time a woman is 1 day late she is considered to be 4 weeks pregnant. If she is 2 weeks late she is considered to be 6 weeks pregnant.

jildwy

Hi All

Thaedydal is correct. Pregnancy is calculated from from first day of your last menstrual period (LMP) irrespective of when you actually had sex. As you normally ovulate somewhere in the middle of a 28 day cycle then doctors figure are probably correct.

mood

OP did she say the baby is yours?

S23

Loving the science here people!

One thing you don't mention OP, is did you have protected sex or not. I hate to cast aspersions at this young lady but, while the math may suggest the bun in the oven is yours, if she was hopping into the sack the first night she met you then who knows where she may have been the night before or after.

Not saying that is the case but you never know!

dan_d

You'd want to have a chat with her OP!!
Pregnancy doesn't develop quickly. It's the same for every woman. Now while the maths would suggest the baby mightn't be yours, she'd want to be sure that she was definitely 3 weeks late. If it was less than that, then it could possibly be yours.
Plus, as the last poster said - who else was she with, and you've had unprotected sex with her? Check that out.
If she's very unsure, I suppose you'll just have to wait and get a paternity test when the child is born.
And read up again on conception and pregnancy. I'm not being smart. But as a girl, it always amazes me how little some men know/understand about the whole process.
Best of luck.