ok Im confused?

Question

My baby is 24 weeks old today so I have been referring to her as 6 months old. However, a nurse said to me she is not six months yet. I referrred to my pregnancy in weeks, not months should I be doing the same now she is here? Technically is she six months old?? Im confused with it all

Answer 1

I am going to guess that your baby was born May 29. That would make her 24 weeks old on November 13.. However, she will not be considered 6 months old until November 29. There are not exactly 4 weeks in a month so 4 weeks old does not equal 1 month old. Your baby would have been 1 month old on June 29, but 4 weeks old on June 26. Generally after 2-3 months it is hard to keep track of weeks. It is easier using the date your daughter was born as the guide to saying how old she is. You can say she is 5 1/2 months old with accuracy and on November 29 you can say she is 6 months old. On December 29, she will be 7 months old. She is not 6 months old yet in reality or technicality. It is a fairly new practice to count pregnancy in weeks instead of months. Some women go so far as to count in weeks and days, but human gestation is not an exact science so due dates are simply a measure of estimation when a baby might be born. Women are able to find out a great deal earlier that they are pregnant than they did when I was having babies so I get a little confused by the 9 months/40weeks thing myself. Apparently it is typical to count pregnancy in terms of when the last menstrual period began, which gives an average gestation of 280 days counted from the onset of the menstrual cycle. But, if you count from date of conception, the average gestation is 266 days. Of course, this is based assuming a woman has an exact 28 day cycle and ovulates on the 14th day and all women and cycles are different. Because sperm can live up to 5 days (and sometimes longer if conditions are right) inside a woman and an egg can stay viable for 12-24 hours after ovulation, you can not even say with all accuracy that a baby was conceived on the day you had sex.

Answer 2

February is the only month that has 4 weeks. All of the rest have 30 or 31 days which is 4 weeks and 2 or 3 days per month. Same thing with pregnancy, it's 40 weeks, but 9 months. It is 10 4-week periods or lunar cycles, but not months.

While your daughter is 24 weeks old, she is not quite 6 months yet. For example, if she was born on the 20th of a month, she would turn 1, 2, 3, 4 months, and so on... on the 20th of each month. Just think about it, there are 52 weeks in a year, so that would be 13 4-week periods, but there are only 12 months.

Answer 3

Technically she is 24 weeks old. But she's not 6 months old, because all months have a different number of days in them. You should be celebrating her "month day" on the day she was born in the month following her birth and so on.

Answer 4

Ive been doing the same thing. I guess that's bad because I started feeding my daughter stage 1 baby food at 17 weeks and stage two at 24 weeks.

Oh well I guess these are the things you can learn from reading those "What to expect" books. :)

Answer 5

Go by months now. For example if your daughter was born July 13th, then November 13th would be her 4 month birthday.

Answer 6

They di babies it terms of months not weeks. Everything for children is based of a month system.

Answer 7

it doesnt make a difference, they told me the same thing. i believe she is six months, its just for some reason they go off weeks until she is one year.