i dont get it.......??

Question

i thought
4 weeks =1 months
8weeks = 2 months
12 weeks =3 months
16 weeks =4months
20 weeks =5 months
24 weeks =6months
28 weeks =7months
32 weeks =8months
36 weeks =9months
40 weeks =10months

so why do people say for instance that april that just asked how far along she was and she was 7 weeks+1day how is she in 2nd month approaching third month! its like im 27 weeks pregnant i say im nearly 7 months or what would everybody else class me as and please show me how YOU work it out please?
sorry i am just curious!!!
and before people say 'how old are you?' im old enough thank you i jst want to know what other peoples views are on it!

i know there are not 4 weeks in every month but thats how my midwife and doctor count it ! but why?

Answer 1

Ah, Miss Charlotte. Seems some folks answered who weren't even following the question you were referring to. I guess we should just have simply told the other questioner that at 7 weeks she was almost 2 month along.

But like I answered her she should just say what ever month she is closest to. Because no one is going to remember and will ask again later...lol.

And as we all know all your measurements, dates, weights, etc. are always give or take 5 days. (thats almost a week!) So you can always end up a week further along or behind than you originally thought. Then in the end it doesn't really matter because the baby will come when its ready!

I wonder about the way us pregnant women worry with our dates; is it just a way of taking a break from the larger worries, like is my baby ok?

Answer 2

You are doing the calculations correctly. A woman is pregnant for 40 weeks, that is 9 WHOLE months so by 40 weeks you have started the 10th month of pregnancy, but never complete it.
You cant really use the 4 weeks in a month thing because differnt months have different amouts of days. Also you have to configure the Daylight savings time thing as well. Its all mathematics and Physics, very confusing.

Your best bet would be to just say Im "However many" weeks and leave it at that. If people dont know how far along that is....well then let them look it up and decide> LOL

Answer 3

The average gestation for baby is 40-42.5 weeks. Unless you know the exact date you conceived (and precious few of us do!) just go by the number of weeks that the doctor says or from when you had your last period.

In the end, there really is no such thing as an "over due" baby. They are born when they are ready to be born, not according to doctors guesstimation which is the to calculate from the first day of your last period, count back 3 months and add 2 weeks.

Do yourself a favor, take a Bradley Birth child birth class. You will learn everything you need to know, want to know and should know. All the teachers have had natural births using this method and you will fall in love with them. They are so helpfull and down to earth. You can find them at bradleybirth.com. I absolutely loved my classes. I became much more knowledgeable and was able to prevent doctors from imposing their will on me and make good educated decisions about the progression of my labor and birth.

Answer 4

ok 1 week = 7 days, most months are 30 or 31 days, so they are 2 or 3 + days for every month, apart from february, of course. But to make it easier for everyone, we say that there are 4 weeks in the month, and when we get past several weeks it is easier to count in months, everyone know what 4 months is but 17 weeks is a bit more hard to imagine for some people, as you have to do the math.... happy nappy changing

Answer 5

It's because every month (other than February) has more than 28 days in it. So 4 weeks = 1 month only one time a year--February. So if you look at January and February (two months) you actually have 9 weeks. After you continue that over 9 months, you get 40 weeks.

Answer 6

You count how far along you are from the first day of your last period that is why it doesn't add up and you have to remember most months have 4 1/2 weeks so depending on the first day of you last period you could be 5 weeks in one month.

Answer 7

Probably because they don't know what they are talking about. You are correct. The lady is close to her second month of pregnancy.

It's a common misconception. If you start out thinking you are one month pregnant the day the child is conceived then she would be two months along. I'll show you how they may be thinking

Conception--1 month
4 weeks--2 months
8 weeks--3 months
and so on....

They probably were never pregnant or while they were pregnant didn't understand how it worked.

Answer 8

well i hate it when people say that about being so many weeks or been working somewhere for so many weeks, now i think the best way would be to say blah blah months then either how many other days or weeks. Example- being pregnant for 3 months and 2 weeks would be the best way that I would use. It really gets on my nerves having to figure out how many months is in all over those weeks.

Answer 9

Months have more than 28 days in them. 28 days is 7 weeks. A calendar month is made up or either 30 or 31 days apart from February. This is why pregnancy is done in weeks, its an exact figure.

Answer 10

Think about it there are 52 weeks in a year- 52 divided by 12 is 4.33- so where does the other 4 weeks go?? You can't use the 4 weeks = a month thing, it just doesn't work.