How Accurate is Your Due Date?
Pregnancy Podcast
Vanessa Merten
4.5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
One of the first things you do when you find out you are pregnant is to determine your due date. This date rules everything about your pregnancy, from your prenatal care to the timing of your baby shower. This is also the most common question from friends, family, and strangers. As you get close to your due date, there can be a lot of anxiety, especially if your due date comes and goes, and you are still pregnant. This date estimates when your baby will arrive; it is not exact. It is certainly not a deadline. The calculation we use today is hundreds of years old, and the evidence doesn't fully agree with it. This episode examines how to calculate your due date, the accuracy of these calculations, and what this means for your pregnancy.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. |
| 0:15.5 | In today's episode, we're talking about how accurate your due date is. |
| 0:20.7 | One of the very first things that you do when you find out that you're pregnant is to determine your due date. |
| 0:27.5 | This date rules everything about your pregnancy, from your prenatal care to the timing of your baby shower. |
| 0:34.9 | This is also the most common question from friends, family, and strangers, |
| 0:40.3 | and as you get closer to your due date, there can be a lot of anxiety, especially if your due |
| 0:46.4 | date comes and goes and you're still pregnant. This date estimates when your baby will arrive. |
| 0:53.4 | It is not exact, and it is certainly not a deadline. |
| 0:58.6 | The calculation that we use today is hundreds of years old and the evidence doesn't fully agree with it. |
| 1:05.7 | So in today's episode, we will examine how to calculate your due date, the accuracy of these calculations, |
| 1:13.7 | and what it means for your pregnancy. You can find the full article and all of the resources for this |
| 1:21.0 | episode at pregnancypodcast.com slash due date. There's a lot to learn about during pregnancy. The good news is there is a |
| 1:33.5 | pregnancy podcast episode waiting for you to press play on every topic that you could think of. |
| 1:40.4 | Become a pregnancy podcast premium member. You will get an ad-free experience and access to every single episode of the podcast. |
| 1:50.4 | That includes hundreds of episodes with evidence-based information that you won't find anywhere else. |
| 1:58.3 | Let me save you the time and hassle of researching the evidence and sorting through |
| 2:03.3 | conflicting information. Become a pregnancy podcast premium member to unlock every single episode of the |
| 2:11.0 | podcast and it's all ad-free. Check out pregnancy podcastnancy Podcast Premium at Pregnancypodcast.com slash premium. |
| 2:23.8 | Zoller goes above and beyond in formulating their prenatal plus DHA. It's made with high-quality |
| 2:30.3 | ingredients like the active form of folate, bioavailable iron, and essential nutrients like |
| 2:36.5 | omega-3s. In the month of January, 26, save 40% on the Zeller prenatal plus D-H-A on Amazon with the code |
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