Today is 17 weeks. Not too much to update since Monday; however, I have been wondering how people calculate how many "months" pregnant they are. If you go with the idea that a month is 4 weeks, and pregnancy is about 40 weeks long, that is 10 months, so right away that doesn't work. I have seen some websites that have a chart, and for a few of the months, they have (I believe arbitrarily) made them 5 weeks long instead of 4. I have heard some people say you take the number of weeks you are and divide by 4.4 (the average amount of weeks in a month). So for me, I would be 17/4.4 = ~3.8 months. That is kind of labor intensive (pregnancy pun not intended). I guess I can use that, but I came up with a different idea. Maybe someone else has also thought of this "method," but I haven't seen it anywhere, and I have done a fair amount of googling on this topic, so I will go ahead and call it my idea. I go by my due date, January 2, and count backwards. So December 2 would be 8 months, November 2 is 7 months, etc. While this may also seem labor intensive, I just wrote it on my calendar when I figured it out and now I don't have to do any more figuring! My method is also pretty close to the division method, because it puts me pretty close to 4 months (August 2!!) :-D
So... how would you/did you/do you figure out how many months pregnant you are?
3 comments:
I did the same thing you are doing for figuring out how many months I was. It was too confusing with weeks. Unless they were pregnant, no one knew what I meant by 17 weeks, or whatever. haha
I just go by weeks and hope that satisfies the asker. It never does, so I tell them the due date, hoping that helps. It never does, so I count backwards from there and wonder if I'm going to be expected to do anything else...
P.S. Sometimes I quickly calculate my progress percentage. "Let's see, since I'm 21 weeks and a pregnancy is usually 40 weeks, I'm just a week over halfway!"
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