Clearly I always know how many weeks pregnant I am. When people ask, they're usually looking for months instead of weeks. So would 6 months be 3 months back from your due date? Or do you say 6 months at 24 weeks? This isn't really important, just curious.
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There are 4 1/2 weeks in each month, not 4, I never understood the confusion. I am due on Sept 17th, so on May 17th I will be 5 months pregnant.
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I always try to figure that out too! Most of the time only women who have been pregnant before understand what it means when you tell them in weeks. So I say that since I'm due at the end of September I am 4.5 or 5 months pregnant because it's just easier to count back from your due date, I think. I'd just pick a month, haha, they won't know any different.
I take the number of weeks I am and divide by 4. That's close enough to me. Or I take my due date and count back if its close enough to a 20th because I am due on September 20th.
I count til how many months until I am due. I am 23 weeks right now due sept. 5 and I have been telling people I am due in 4 months. So I'm 5 months pregnant. Because many people think ur pregnant for 9 Months they seem to be confused when I say 10 months....
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Yay thanks! This is very helpful. Interesting to see that everyone has a different thought on this!
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At 24 weeks you are 5 months, not 6. You just started the 6th month of the pregnancy, but you have been pregnant (completed) 5 months, if that makes sense.
It's roughly 4.5 weeks/month and 40 weeks is the end of the 9th month. If you go over 40 weeks, you are 9 months and however many extra weeks pregnant, not 10 months (unless you get to 44-45 weeks and still haven't been induced). It's the same as counting your own age - you count the months completed, not the month you are starting.
I get confused about this too and it's my fourth. I do know that we are technically pregnant for 10 months not 9.
Not true. I ovulated around December 15 and my DD is September 10th. So technically a few days shy of 9 months. If you count your LMP, when you technically aren't pregnant yet, you get nine months and a few days. In my case it would be 9 months and 4 days.
To those thinking you're pregnant for 10 months, count the months from your LMP. It's 9 months plus ~6 days (depending on what months are in between). The only month with only 4 weeks is February.
I think the easiest way is just to count back from your due date.
I'm 5 months pregnant. People who have never been pregnant don't like to be told how far along you are in weeks, just months, so in Jan we were 1 month, fFeb 2 months, etc.
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meh...sometimes I tell them using the calendar months, sometimes I use the 4 weeks = one month rule.
The truth is, it really doesn't matter what you tell them, no one is going to mark it down on a calendar and hold you to it. They really just want an estimate. If they are that serious, they ask for the due date.
To those thinking you're pregnant for 10 months, count the months from your LMP. nbsp;It's 9 months plus 6 days depending on what months are in between. nbsp;The only month with only 4 weeks is February.I think the easiest way is just to count back from your due date.
Thank you! It kills me web people say pregnancy is really 10 months. I just had this thought today RE: my lmp and my EDD
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Re: Pregnancy months
This. My weeks and months fall on very different dates. I will be 20 weeks tomorrow on the 12th. I am not 5 months until May 29th.
I use this as my guideline for the weeks/months/trimesters stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy
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Thanks... I am not savvy enough to do that
Yay thanks! This is very helpful. Interesting to see that everyone has a different thought on this!
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Ectopic pregnancy Sep/Oct 2014 ended in surgery, and many trips to the ER
Miracle #3: EDD 11/28/16
This!
At 24 weeks you are 5 months, not 6. You just started the 6th month of the pregnancy, but you have been pregnant (completed) 5 months, if that makes sense.
It's roughly 4.5 weeks/month and 40 weeks is the end of the 9th month. If you go over 40 weeks, you are 9 months and however many extra weeks pregnant, not 10 months (unless you get to 44-45 weeks and still haven't been induced). It's the same as counting your own age - you count the months completed, not the month you are starting.
Not true. I ovulated around December 15 and my DD is September 10th. So technically a few days shy of 9 months. If you count your LMP, when you technically aren't pregnant yet, you get nine months and a few days. In my case it would be 9 months and 4 days.
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To those thinking you're pregnant for 10 months, count the months from your LMP. It's 9 months plus ~6 days (depending on what months are in between). The only month with only 4 weeks is February.
I think the easiest way is just to count back from your due date.
Our little lightbulb is on the way!
12 weeks 3 days
TTC since Oct 2011
Me: 33, hypothyroidism since 14, cleared all HSG, US, Pre-pregnancy panel tests.
Hubby: 36, testicular Ca, chemo April-May 2012.
Natural cycle IUI #1 with trigger and Progesterone Suppositories (Jun 2012) Neg
Natural Cycle IUI #2 with trigger and Progesterone Suppositories (Jul 2012) NEG
Aug 2012 - break due to needing a girls' weekend in Cape Cod
Natural Cycle IUI #3 with trigger and prednisone (Sep 2012) NEGATIVE
Switched fertility clinics - forced break Oct 2012
Natural Cycle IUI #4 (Nov 2012) no trigger, no progesterone, no prednisone (Nov 2012) - Neg
1st round Clomid Cycle IUI #5 (Dec 2012) - POS
meh...sometimes I tell them using the calendar months, sometimes I use the 4 weeks = one month rule.
The truth is, it really doesn't matter what you tell them, no one is going to mark it down on a calendar and hold you to it. They really just want an estimate. If they are that serious, they ask for the due date.
This website has a chart that I find helpful.
https://www.baby2see.com/development/index.html
If you just divide your weeks by 4 you end up being pregnant for 10 mo instead of 9 1/2.
Thank you! It kills me web people say pregnancy is really 10 months. I just had this thought today RE: my lmp and my EDD