Baby's age. Do you go by weeks or months?

leap_frog · March 2016

and secondary curiosity question: do you consider 1 month at 4 weeks / 2 months at 8 weeks or the month on actual birthday date?

mom2be2016 · March 2016

I've been going by the birthday date.

emcarl24 · March 2016

Birthday date. A month is not usually actually 4 weeks, so it's less confusing to just go by his birthday date.

Becky012016 · March 2016

I've been going by both. I'll say weeks unless it's close to his actual month-day then I'll say his age in months. I'll probably stop counting weeks when's he's 4 months old just because.

cali1710 · March 2016

I concider it by date but I usually say weeks unless ots close to her date

Achae · March 2016

Months and I go by actual birthdate.

MissMheMhe · March 2016

DH thought we missed his 1 month pictures when he was 4 weeks. I reminded him it's on his birth date otherwise he'd be 12 months before his actual first birthday. I plan on using both months and weeks until 6 months.

BarrettJ89 · March 2016

I've noticed with my son and now the baby that I use weeks up to about 3 months of age, and months up to about 18 months of age.. after that, it's too much math for most people

mbud926 · March 2016

I was just thinking about this! LO will be 10 weeks tomorrow and that's when I will start saying his age in months. I guess I have something against the double digits! For monthly photos, I go by date so that he 1 year will actually be his 1 year.

2winterbabies · March 2016

I go by her birth date

BarrettJ89 · March 2016

My SO was just telling me about how a woman he works with told him that she has a 38 month old... he said, "so she's 3?"

He had to walk away (to laugh) because the woman looked so perplexed as to why someone would just say the year at that point.

maureenmce · March 2016

I plan to switch to months at 2 months - no idea why, that just makes sense to me for some reason. And I go by birthdate.

krrpe99 · March 2016

For me, it just depends on who I'm talking to. I use weeks with other moms of little ones and months with anyone else. Months are easier for most people.

cali1710 · March 2016

BarrettJ89 said:

My SO was just telling me about how a woman he works with told him that she has a 38 month old... he said, "so she's 3?"

He had to walk away (to laugh) because the woman looked so perplexed as to why someone would just say the year at that point.

Someone said the same to me the other day. "Shes 23 months ". So shes two next month. You can just say that.

hannahduff3 · March 2016

I use weeks until it's close to the month birthday then I'll say "he'll be 2 months on Thursday" etc. I go by his actual birth date not by weeks. I'm not sure when I'll stop using weeks but maybe after 3 months?