Are you actually pregnant 10 months?

Answer 1

If you assume a month is 4 weeks, then yes. Pregnancy lasts 10 months as opposed to 9.

Answer 2

You can be pregnant 38 - 42 weeks (in a normal pregnancy)

That is 266 - 294 days

A month is an average of (about) 30.5 days.

So you are pregnant 8.72 - 9.64 months.

Naegle's Rule, which is how many due dates are calculated is based on one male chauvinistic doctor who decided that women SHOULD be pregnant for 10 lunar months (10 * 28 = 280) without doing any actual research into the problem. Many doctors also use 283 days the length of a normal pregnancy. There is *slightly* more evidence to support. There is another rule that I can never remember the name of that says average first pregnancies are 41weeks and 3 days, second pregnancies are 41weeks, and subsequent pregnancies are 40weeks and 5 days. Which is based on a more recent study where they actually tracked when women gave birth without any medical interference.

Answer 3

A pregnancy is considered to be 40 weeks, and that starts from the first day of the last period that you had. So there are actually about 2 weeks in there where you hadn't ovulated, yet, and then another 8-10 days before a fertilized egg travels down the fallopian tubes, into the uterus, and implants. So medically speaking, you're pregnant 40 weeks. In reality, you're actually physically pregnant about 37-38 weeks.

Answer 4

No, because there are not 4 weeks in every month...there are 3 to 5 weeks per month. Pregnancy lasts 40 weeks. To people that think 4 weeks to a month, then it would seem it lasts 10 months. But if you were 24 weeks pregany, then someone like that would consider you to be 6 months with 16 weeks left or 4 months...not true really, but pregnancy time is confusing if you don't try to understand it by the week.

Answer 5

You are pregnant for aproximatly 40 weeks. Some women go 38 weeks, some 42 weeks. So you are pregnant between 9 and 10 months.

Answer 6

Yup, doctors base your pregnancy on 40 weeks which using 4 weeks in a month would equal 10 months. I guess 9 months sounded better. If they would have said "the duration of being pregnant is a10 months" a long time ago, maybe the world wouldn't be so crowded.

Answer 7

You are pregnant for 40 weeks. Now, some months have 5 weeks, don't they ?

Actually, you are pregnant for 10 months, but, you tend not to count the first month too early ( who as ever said, " I'm two weeks pregnant " ? )

Answer 8

At full-term baby is born at the end of ten lunar months (4 weeks, the same as the average menstrual cycle). So people are pregnant for ten lunar months.

They are, however, pregnant for nine calendar months, and the baby is usually born a couple of weeks into the tenth calendar; so the women doesn't generaly ever get to completing a full ten calendar months.

With the exception of Feburary when it isn't a leap year, calendar months have either two days more or three days more than a lunar month; so that accounts for while calendar months are a little longer, and a pregnancy doesn't take quite as many of them as it does lunar months to be completed.

(My mother used to have a real "thing" when I would talk in lunar months to her!! She just didn't like that "lunar month thing" younger mothers used.)

Answer 9

You are actually pregnant for 288 days (on average), which is a little over 9 months.

Answer 10

It is calculated as 40 weeks, but either way it's better than an elephant. They're pregnant 24 months.