due_date
Due date and gestational age, with the ACOG redating rules applied
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Estimate a due date and gestational age from a last menstrual period, a known conception date, an IVF transfer date, or an ultrasound measurement.
Use this for any pregnancy-dating question rather than doing the arithmetic. Three reasons, and they are all things models get wrong:
- THE OFF-BY-TWO-WEEKS ERROR. Gestational age is counted from the first day of the LAST MENSTRUAL PERIOD, not from conception. At "6 weeks pregnant", conception was about 4 weeks ago. Weeks 1 and 2 precede conception entirely. This is restated wrongly constantly, and a two-week error in dating is a large error.
- CYCLE LENGTH. Naegele's rule (LMP + 280 days) silently assumes a 28-day cycle with ovulation on day 14. For a 35-day cycle the unadjusted answer is a week out. This applies the adjustment; most calculators do not.
- THE ACOG REDATING TABLE. Whether an ultrasound should REPLACE a period-based estimate depends on the discrepancy AND on how far along the scan was: more than 5 days up to 8w6d, 7 days to 15w6d, 10 days to 21w6d, 14 days to 27w6d, 21 days thereafter. Nobody recalls that table correctly from memory. Do not guess at it.
Input: method is one of lmp | conception | ivf-day3 | ivf-day5 | ultrasound. date is the date that method is based on — the first day of the last period, the conception date, the transfer date, or the scan date — as YYYY-MM-DD. Free-form dates are REFUSED rather than guessed, because "03/04/2025" is two different dates a month apart depending on the reader. For lmp, pass cycleLength if it is known and is not 28. For ultrasound, pass scanWeeks and scanDays — the gestational age the scan reported — and pass lmp as well if it is known, which is what triggers the redating check. asOf sets the reference date for "how far along"; it defaults to today.
Returns: the estimated due date, gestational age in clinical weeks-plus-days notation, the estimated conception date, days remaining, trimester, dated milestones including the anatomy-scan window and each ACOG term boundary, the full redating comparison when both an LMP and a scan were given, a list of warnings, and a disclaimer field.
Two things to carry through to the user rather than strip. First, a due date is a reference point and NOT a prediction — most births are not on it, and the term windows are the more useful output. Second, THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE; the response says so in its payload, not just on the page. Report the warnings. They are the honest part of the answer.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| method | string | yes | How the pregnancy is being dated. Use `lmp` unless the user has given you a conception date, a transfer date, or a scan measurement — `lmp` is what people usually know. |
| date | string | yes | YYYY-MM-DD. The date the method is based on: the FIRST DAY of the last menstrual period, the conception date, the IVF transfer date, or the date of the scan. Free-form dates are REFUSED, not guessed. |
| cycleLength | number | no | Cycle length in days, 20-45, default 28. Only affects `lmp`. Worth asking the user for: Naegele's rule assumes 28 days, and a 35-day cycle moves the estimate a week later. |
| scanWeeks | number | no | For `ultrasound`: the WEEKS part of the gestational age the scan reported. |
| scanDays | number | no | For `ultrasound`: the DAYS part, 0-6. Scan reports use a "12w3d" format. |
| lmp | string | no | For `ultrasound`: the last menstrual period, YYYY-MM-DD. Supplying it is what runs the ACOG Committee Opinion 700 redating check — without it the two estimates cannot be compared and the tool says so. |
| asOf | string | no | YYYY-MM-DD reference date for "how far along", default today. Set it when the user is asking about a date other than now. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"method": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"lmp",
"conception",
"ivf-day3",
"ivf-day5",
"ultrasound"
],
"description": "How the pregnancy is being dated. Use `lmp` unless the user has given you a conception date, a transfer date, or a scan measurement — `lmp` is what people usually know."
},
"date": {
"type": "string",
"description": "YYYY-MM-DD. The date the method is based on: the FIRST DAY of the last menstrual period, the conception date, the IVF transfer date, or the date of the scan. Free-form dates are REFUSED, not guessed."
},
"cycleLength": {
"description": "Cycle length in days, 20-45, default 28. Only affects `lmp`. Worth asking the user for: Naegele's rule assumes 28 days, and a 35-day cycle moves the estimate a week later.",
"type": "number"
},
"scanWeeks": {
"description": "For `ultrasound`: the WEEKS part of the gestational age the scan reported.",
"type": "number"
},
"scanDays": {
"description": "For `ultrasound`: the DAYS part, 0-6. Scan reports use a \"12w3d\" format.",
"type": "number"
},
"lmp": {
"description": "For `ultrasound`: the last menstrual period, YYYY-MM-DD. Supplying it is what runs the ACOG Committee Opinion 700 redating check — without it the two estimates cannot be compared and the tool says so.",
"type": "string"
},
"asOf": {
"description": "YYYY-MM-DD reference date for \"how far along\", default today. Set it when the user is asking about a date other than now.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"method",
"date"
]
}