ru pregnant for 9 0r 10 mts?

[suzee1]

How is it when your pregnant the doctor says your pregnant for 40 weeks yet also says your pregnancy lasts 9 months after having 3kids this still confuses me does anyone have the answer for this, my daughters baby is due on 20 of october as its the end of august now this makes her 7months in my book but she says shes 8months gone please help to unravel this x

[redcrx]

full term pregnancy is classed as 38 to 40 weeks.

As a month isnt exactly 4 weeks its actually somewhere between 9 and 10 months.

let her believe shes 8 months if she wants, if makes no difference other than to help her feel that the end is in sight :)

[Ethel]

She's due in roughly 7 weeks, so that means she is 33 weeks pregant.
33 divided by 4 is 8.2, so she is 8 months pregnant if you count a month as 4 weeks, 7 months if you use calendar months.

[suzee1]

thanks love

[spudqueen]

There are 12 months in a year and 4 weeks in a month, yet 52 weeks a year - so by these calculations there should be 13 months in a year!

This is because not every month has exactly 4 weeks (only February does), the rest have slightly more than 4 weeks, and over the year this all adds up to 52 weeks, yet only 12 months.

I always classed my pregnancies by either weeks or if using months I would say eg I was 6 months pregnant at the beginning of July if I was due at the beginning of October.