Talk:Episode 22/@comment-26567684-20200328015222

Guideline to hCG levels in weeks during pregnancy (every chart is different)

3 weeks LMP: 5 – 50 mIU/mL 4 weeks LMP: 5 – 426 mIU/mL 5 weeks LMP: 18 – 7,340 mIU/mL 6 weeks LMP: 1,080 – 56,500 mIU/mL 7 – 8 weeks LMP: 7, 650 – 229,000 mIU/mL 9 – 12 weeks LMP: 25,700 – 288,000 mIU/mL 13 – 16 weeks LMP: 13,300 – 254,000 mIU/mL 17 – 24 weeks LMP: 4,060 – 165,400 mIU/mL 25 – 40 weeks LMP: 3,640 – 117,000 mIU/mL Non-pregnant females: 0 – 5 mIU/mL Postmenopausal females: 0 – 8 mIU/mL

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normal hCG ranges during 1st trimester in mIU/ml and IU/L:

1 week: 5-50 mIU/mL (5-50 IU/L) 2 weeks: 50-500 mIU/mL (50-500 IU/L) 3 weeks: 100-10,000 mIU/mL (100-10,000 IU/L) 4 weeks: 1,000-30,000 mIU/mL (1,000-30,000 IU/L) 5 weeks: 3,500-115,000 mIU/mL (3,500-115,000 IU/L) 6-8 weeks: 12,000-270,000 mIU/mL (12,000-270,000 IU/L) 12 weeks: 15,000-220,000 mIU/mL (15,000-220,000 IU/L)

Most charts of human gonadotropin hormone give in gestational weeks, e.g. 3 weeks after beginning of menses = 3 weeks from last menstrual period (LMP) = 1 week after ovulation (DPO) = 1 week before period is due, in a standard 28-day cycle period.

At 5 weeks pregnant, your hCG levels can range from about 217 to 8,245 mIU/mL (this should be factually accurate based on the timeline) At 7 weeks pregnant, your hCG levels can range from about 4,059 to 153,767 mIU/mL (this had to have been a mistake)

I researched high and low to figure this out. A Etoolsage.com Calculator I used showed hcg of 101596.1 is the norm for the 7th week. But since the timeline adds to her being 4/5 weeks pregnant, I can only conclude the numbers were a big mixup on the writers/animators’ part. If she was 7 weeks then she would have been pregnant for 42 weeks, which is considered two weeks overdue (though it does happen) if you add 7 to 35 (35 weeks is 245 days). All I know on dates is that episode 12-14 take place in February and episode 16 signifies the start of spring because the cherry blossom trees were starting to bud. I think roughly a month passed between episode 14 and 15 considering Zero Two was given a dozen stamen as partners and she devoured each one after three sorties, which would put episode 15 in March if true. Then Squad 13 was kept alone in Mistilteinn for a month (March/April) and they spent a few weeks in the Bird Nest before the pregnancy announcement (which was in May). The timeline is too sketchy to determine what is accurate.