How accurate are 'due dates'?

Afternoon all, Take the first day of your last period, add a year, subtract three months, and add seven days. That’s when you’re going to have your baby. (Only applies to pregnant women). That’s how it was estimated in the 18th Century anyway. Curiously, nowadays the French measure due dates differently to the UK and US. While the US and UK predict the baby will be born 40 weeks after the first day of the mother’s last period, in France it is 41 weeks. One obstetrician told us French doctors just manage expectations better. While doctors in the UK or US wait up to two weeks after an estimated delivery date before inducing birth, French doctors give women an extra week to start with, then induce more quickly. How accurate are 'due dates'? Recent stories of child sexual abuse have focused on celebrities and grooming gangs. But campaigners think that more than 80% of abuse takes place within the home and estimate that one in three children never tell anyone about it. So children are now being given explicit warnings in school about dangers posed by people they know. Fergal Keane and Dominic Hurst went to one of these lessons and found the content remarkably frank. The scale of abuse Jamsetji Tato was turned away from one of Mumbai’s most expensive hotels because of the colour of his skin. So he built this.               And it was pretty luxurious. In 1903, when The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel opened, it was the first building in the city to have electricity, American fans, German lifts and English butlers. Jamsetji made his money from cotton mills. But his biggest dream was to build a steel plant. He died before he could realise this goal so his son did. And that was how Tata - one of the world's biggest companies - was born. The men of steel with a softer side         Meanwhile... A woman has lost her ability to speak Chinese Someone’s giving money tens of thousands of dollars to gamers The UK is considering a law which would allow babies to be created from 3 people               That’s it from us today. If you want to know when are next email will be, take the date of the last day of your period, add one year, take the number from that date and times it by zero, add 24 hours and it will be roughly around that time. Roughly. But you don't have to work it out, just make sure you’re subscribed, like us and follow usand the internet will work it's magic. Oh and… yesterday we were an answer on the devilishly difficult game show Only Connect.