My doc changed mine when I had my first u/s back in June - they said I was measuring a week smaller, so they pushed my due date from dec 6th-ish to the 14th-ish. I knew around what three days i ovulated and got pregnant (st patty's day), but they back tracked it to the 5th of that month since it was my last period. when i went to the doctor last week he said i was measuring big - just by doing my belly - so that'd make the previous due date more correct. *lol* righ tnow we're just saying he'll be here the first of december.

My experience was exactly like your first pregnancy, I have longer cycles and don't ovulate until day 26.  The OB office follows their "rule book" too and estimated my delivery 2 weeks earlier.  After talking to the nurse and the doctor, and getting a dating ultrasound, and reasoning with the doctor when my conception date was (as I knew exactly), they finally changed my due date.  I too was fearful they would try to induce me early.  However, for the next 3 months, I still had to explain over and over and over to various nurses and technicians and doctors (had different doctors for genetic testing) about the change in the due date as they kept looking at my LMP and based everything on that.  Frustrating to say the least, as the genetic testing doctor was fearful my baby was 2 weeks too small and wanted to do all these other tests, but after explaining about the later ovulation, the doctor was reassured the size of my baby was fine.  It amazes me that this happens as I couldn't be the ONLY person who has longer cycles and went through this.  Reading your entry was a relief that I wasn't the ONLY person who went through this!

Ha! I love this! My first baby I had the positive test. Called the dr, and they didnt want to see me until 10 weeks or so, so I was living for weeks, just doing my thing. The night before the doctor appointment I had to run out late and grab another test, just to be sure it was "still" positive. My husband laughed at me! Since nothing changed, it was quite clear I was probably STILL pregnant! I too wanted to be sure!

Definitely express this AND those concerns to the doc!!

@aliyagator@xanga - @spamandrice@xanga - I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one! Why are they so hesitant to listen? I've been charting my cycles for months so I have PROOF that I typically ovulate between Day 25-35 of my extra long cycles (which vary from 40-55 days). With cycles like that, there's no way my LMP would be accurate! 

I'm just like you, long cycles so I ovulate late.  With this last pregnancy (my third) I never had a period, but I knew approximately when I ovulated because I spotted one day (when the egg implanted).  I told my doctor's office this and they STILL assigned me an arbitrary due date...based on my LMP...that I never had.  Does that make ANY sense??  I also had the initial sonogram that assigned me a due date based on the baby's size, but of course the doctor went with the earlier date.  Thankfully they were only 3 days apart and my doctor was really laid back so she didn't insist on an induction (I ended up delivering him naturally 9/6 days late).  It does REALLY bug me that OBs do that...it makes much more sense to base due dates on the baby's size, but noooo they have to follow that "rule book" that most women's bodies don't follow anyway.

This is our first. When I took the test, it was a very faint positive. All the looking it up I did, and the few people I talked to at that point, told me a positive was a positive was a positive. :p
When I took another test a few days later, and it was only a little darker, I was still having trouble with the idea that it was most definitely a positive, despite how faint. My husband told me he knew I was pregnant, and that was what the doctor was going to tell me. I, on the other hand, was so scared that we were going to walk in there and, somehow, despite all the symptoms I was going through and the fact that both tests had been positive (faint, though they were), the clinic was going to be like "Nope, you're not pregnant." :p
I was so happy when the results came in and I had that reassurance that, yes, I really am pregnant. LOL

YAY!!! Congrats cant wait to see the ultrasound pics of the new little one :)

My EDD, according to LMP is January 2 and according to an ultrasound at 13 weeks, December 28. The OB decided to keep it at January 2. Thats fine with me, just 5 days difference, but I'm still hoping the baby comes in December! Don't know why, I just think it would be nice to be a little early this time, instead of late (duh, I guess that would be everybody's pick)! I agree with you though, I absolutely do not want to be induced unless I'm very over-due (or some other issue arises).   Oh, and it cracks me up and makes me feel a little better that I'm not the only woman out there who has that irrational "what if I'm not actually pregnant" fear when going for her first appointment!!  Best wishes for your pregnancy!

@gwendylyyn - With my first pregnancy, the first test I took was such a faint positive that I thought I was seeing things! I asked my husband if it was positive or negative and he just looked bewildered and said, "Both?" I took 3 more that were all like that, so faint that I couldn't even tell if there was a line there or not! But my best friend told me that a line is a line, no matter how faint! I've since had some negative tests while TTC again, and it really is obvious when it's negative. If you even think you see a line, you'd better believe it's positive! But I know, for some reason, I'm still always scared that the doctor is going to tell me I made it all up!

By my LMP I should be due on 2/6, but I knew that wasn't right since I have long cycles, so my OB did a very early ultrasound, saw a hearbeat, but apparently I have a tilted uterus so she guessed 6 weeks, making my new date 2/23 but wasn't 100% sure on that. Then 4 weeks later I went back for another ultrasound which said 11 weeks, so my new, "we're sticking with it" date is 2/16-- which I could have told them in the first place...haha. Congrats on your new little one!