Sometimes I can be smart

I still think my u/s tech was confusing and mixing different ages, but I think I may have figured out the whole gestational age thing!! Here's a quote from a website:

Week 1 & 2 Gestational Age - (Conception)

At this stage, the menstrual period has just ended and your body is getting ready for ovulation. For most women, ovulation takes place about 11 - 21 days from the first day of the last menstrual period. During intercourse, several hundred million sperm are released in the vagina. Sperm will travel through the cervix and into the fallopian tubes. When conception takes place, the sperm will penetrate an egg and create a single set of 46 chromosomes called a zygote - the basis for a new human being. The fertilized egg, called a morula, spends a couple of days traveling through the fallopian tube toward the uterus and dividing into cells (this dividing process is where many chromosomal abnormalities occur). The morula becomes a blastocyst and will eventually end up in the uterus. Anywhere from day 6 - 12 after conception, the blastocyst will imbed into the uterine lining and begin the embryonic stage.

So I think they're counting development of the egg as part of the baby's age and not just fertilization. So NOW I get it more. I think the u/s tech just was mixing up terminology because from my opinion, she was switching from fetal age, to gestational age and back again without either realizing or perhaps making clear that they were separate things. So yes, in this case, I am right about when we conceived. If you go by gestational age (which I think the u/s machine was.. the whole 2 wks extra thing) then 7 wks makes sense because it would be 7 wks old gestationally, but conceived 5 weeks ago. I feel so much better!! Now just how to figure out which the books are talking about... hmm...

Am I right or completely off? Maybe pregnancy hormones are making me crazy? Maybe I'll just go take a nap and wait for my repair guy who could come any time between now and forever.

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