1 Subtract eleven days from the total number of days to find the last fertile day in your cycle. 2  For example, if your longest cycle lasted 31 days, your last potentially fertile day in each cycle would be the 20th day in the cycle (31 - 11 = 20).
Why you shouldnât work up until your due date. I nearly gave birth to my son at work. Right there on the third floor of the sea foam-green AAA building on Van Ness Avenue, where I was working at the time. Luckily, my coworker Nino convinced me to go to the hospital when I told him that I was feeling crampy.
The due date is called the estimated day of confinement (EDC), because traditionally women were confined to bed, âlying in,â from the day of delivery to convalescence was complete. LMP (last menstrual period) is the only observable event from which to calculate a pregnancy without the aid of ultrasound. EDC (LMP B 3 months) + 7 days. The due date is referred to as the estimated date of confinement (EDC). This is a throwback to the days when a woman was âconfinedâ to bed and home for a period of time after birth until convalescence was complete.