Weeks pregnant and number of months confusion

Laceyhelmer1683 · June 2014

I'm almost 22 weeks pregnant and some websites say that's 6 months and some say 24 weeks is 6 months so I'm confused as to which is right ?

DaniGrace89 · June 2014

You are in your 6th month of pregnancy. (When you are 30 years old, you are in your 31st year of life.) But you are 5 1/2 months pregnant.

MuffinMom14 · June 2014

I hate this. I keep getting confused too, so I'm just sticking to weeks.

vrj0522 · June 2014

Yep, at 22-24 weeks you are just starting into the 6th month, which would make you 5 months pregnant. I just go by calendar dates. When are you due?

My baby is due October 10th so on the 10th of every month is when I "turn" a certain month.

However if you go by the week thing, different websites say different things based on the weeks so just pick one that you like and go with it. This is what I follow when I go by weeks:

TheOtherJacobsons · June 2014

I use the finger method. I basically count on my fingers how many months since my BFP. Since there are a different number of weeks in a month.

January to February - 1, March - 2, April - 3, May - 4, June - 5. I am 24 weeks pregnant in my 5th month and that is also what my fingers think :-bd

LaDyBostonRN · June 2014

SPurp13 said:

I hate this. I keep getting confused too, so I'm just sticking to weeks.

This, I just say "I don't know, I'm 23 weeks you do the math".

Laceyhelmer1683 · June 2014

Thanks ladies

I'm due October 28 so maybe I'll just stick to weeks but just nice to know what mouth I'm in too haha

SusieBW · June 2014

I'm not sure why this is so confusing for people. Count back from your due date. I'm due in a little over 3 months (Sept 29), so I'm almost 6 months pregnant. Easy peasy. If you are due on October 20, then you are 5 months pregnant today. On July 20, you'll be 6 months pregnant, on August 20, you'll be 7 months pregnant, and on September 20, you'll be 8 months pregnant.

I'm not sure why it makes me so crazy, but it completely drives me up a wall when people say that pregnancy is 10 months long. It just isn't. It's nine. There are more than 4 weeks in a month, so 40 weeks =/= 10 months. If every month was February and had exactly 28 days, then yes, pregnancy would be 10 months long, but most months have 30 or 31 days.

LightBright515 · June 2014

I'm sticking with what mayoclinic tells me.

Laceyhelmer1683 · June 2014

Your right isn't that hard just wanted to see if other people were getting the same thing from different websites each saying something different. Shouldn't matter too much know how many weeks I am and when I'm due

Mommy2Boys09 · June 2014

I've actually been going off my LMP. Mine was January 23rd, so February 23rd made me 1 month pregnant. So in 3 days I'll be 5 months pregnant. If I go by the picture that was posted above I would have been 5 months yesterday at 21 weeks. If I go by my due date I'd be 5 months on June 30th. Either way. they're all pretty close together. The end of June makes me 5 months pregnant

I'm not too concerned about being exact. When someone asks I usually say how many weeks anyway.

jesslinnn · June 2014

SusieBW said:

I'm not sure why this is so confusing for people. Count back from your due date. I'm due in a little over 3 months (Sept 29), so I'm almost 6 months pregnant. Easy peasy. If you are due on October 20, then you are 5 months pregnant today. On July 20, you'll be 6 months pregnant, on August 20, you'll be 7 months pregnant, and on September 20, you'll be 8 months pregnant.

I'm not sure why it makes me so crazy, but it completely drives me up a wall when people say that pregnancy is 10 months long. It just isn't. It's nine. There are more than 4 weeks in a month, so 40 weeks =/= 10 months. If every month was February and had exactly 28 days, then yes, pregnancy would be 10 months long, but most months have 30 or 31 days.

I agree pregnancy =/= 10 months... but this doesn't completely make sense either, because pregnancy isn't exactly 9 months. It's 9 months plus about a week. For me my lmp was December 25 so on the 25th of every month I am 1 more month. So June 25th I will have been pregnant for 6 months. I'm due October 1st, but if I was counting backwards I wouldn't be 6 months until July 1st.

Anyway... at 24 weeks I started telling strangers 6 months because it's easier and no one really cares exactly how pregnant I am. Most of the time I just stick to weeks.

staryb · June 2014

I'm 23 weeks, I tell people that I'm in my 6th month but that I have 4 months to go. Sounds like I'm arguing the 10 month thing but I'm really not. Being in the 6th month isn't quite the same as being 6 months pregnant but it makes me feel like I'm closer to meeting my baby so I don't mind the confusion

vrj0522 · June 2014

I don't understand how people base the # of months they are at based on their LMP. So for weeks you go by your EDD but for months you go by your LMP? No wonder they don't match up!

pinkshades05 · June 2014

I count backwards from my EDD, but no one us going to nit-pick you if you go by something else.

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