Why do we calculate the length of a pregnancy from the first day of a women’s last period?

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Why do we calculate the length of a pregnancy from the first day of a women’s last period?

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Fun fact: I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere, but with animals you count the gestation time from the day of conception. Probably because you can exactly say when the day of conception was, whereas with humans there probably is multiple times in fertility time where people have sex.

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