Pet peeve

hi_dn@hotmail.com

I hate when someone says that you are really pregnant for 10months...no you are not. You can not count how many months you are by dividing the number of weeks your are by four. This only works for the month of feb. you will be nine months pregnant on your due date. Then count back month by month to find out how many months you are. Ahhhh vent over.

ITGurl0626

I honestly stopped trying to figure this one out, it really confuses me at times.

curlgurl93

You should let the Mayo Clinic know they're doing it wrong then.

KatieRL1979

Depends on your definition of "month".  Calendar months are of course usually 30-31 days, which is 4 weeks and either 2 or 3 days.  Other people feel that it's more consistant to say that a month is 4 weeks.

hi_dn@hotmail.com

Then where did nine months of pregnancy come from?

KatieRL1979

Heidi&tim:

Then where did nine months of pregnancy come from?

Well it is pretty close to the 9 calendar month thing, which is easier for non-medical people to measure.  But as far as stages of pregnancy and development go the medical field counts by weeks and they usually go with the 4 week month to be universally consistant.

Narumi

40 weeks = 10 lunar months = close to 9 calendar months

LynsiBHM

I never understood the whole thing... you're not technically "pregnant" from week 1 of the 40.  It's measured from LMP (at which point you obviously weren't pregnant)  So I guess it's 40 weeks from when the egg is created? 

Either way, it seems like a long time once you reach your due date and you're still pregnant!!!    grrrrr

HappyKlamb10

I have always found this confusing.  When people ask me how far along I am, I try to tell them in weeks, but for a lot of people (especially those that haven't been pg before), they want to know in months instead of weeks.  So like now, I tell people I'm just over 6.5 months, but technically I have 3 full months before my due date...it's weird.

Scout05

LynsiBHM:

I never understood the whole thing... you're not technically "pregnant" from week 1 of the 40.  It's measured from LMP (at which point you obviously weren't pregnant)  So I guess it's 40 weeks from when the egg is created? 

Either way, it seems like a long time once you reach your due date and you're still pregnant!!!    grrrrr

When you think about it, it's really the first two weeks (period and then ovulation), of course assuming the non-existent perfect 28-day cycle w/ ovulation on day 14.

Nine months, ten months, eh. I don't care. Just getting ready to be 39 weeks or so and meet my little girl!

 

lnelson20

LynsiBHM:

So I guess it's 40 weeks from when the egg is created? 

Actually all your eggs were created while you were still a fetus. Measuring back to LMP is just easier as a guideline because many people don't know when they ovulated/conceived. 

LynsiBHM

lnelson20:

LynsiBHM:

So I guess it's 40 weeks from when the egg is created? 

Actually all your eggs were created while you were still a fetus. Measuring back to LMP is just easier as a guideline because many people don't know when they ovulated/conceived. 

 

sorry, should have said when the egg was released.  But ovulation is typically about halfway in your cycle- so up to 2 weeks from your period. I wish they gave due dates more vaguely.  Like when my mom had her 1st- they told her she's due at the end of September.  Then these hormonal "overdue" women like myself wouldn't be so anxious! 

 

unizlinz

I always just subtract 2 weeks from how many weeks I am, in order to guesstimate calendar months for those not in the "pregnancy know". 

I'm 27 weeks minus 2 = 25 weeks...so just over 6 months.

brooketini

I know what you mean- I always hear people say things like "technically, you're pregnant for 10 months". Uh, no you're not. It's funny, because with DD I was pregnant for exactly 9 full months- LMP was 4/1/08, she was born 12/31/08.