to think that 16 weeks is not 4 months!

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Friend writes on FB "I can't believe DS is 4 months already". He's not, he's 16 weeks. He'll be 4 months on the 25th. If you carry on like that, they'd be having their first birthday a month early!

Yanu, 16 weeks or 4 months, the difference is close enough not to matter.

Bugger yes you are unreasonable!

Yabu. Seriously how can you get so annoyed by something like this? Does it really matter

oh for goodness' sake, I can be as pedantic as the next person but with regard to this, so fucking what? I can tell your going to be someone who posts about their 31 month old and everyone's left scratching their head as to how old this child actually is.

If she was asked his age and rounded up to four months - this makes a lot of sense...But it's not what actually happened in the OP.

Celebrating the day of his 4 month birthday on Facebook (why would you do this anyway), but getting it a week out is a bit stupid.

I wouldn't worry about reading your friends banal offerings if you respond like that again. You'll be blocked from everyone's pages.

Whether people round things up or down a bit is really no big deal at all

I don't even know how old my 5+ month old DD is in weeks I feel like maybe I should know this though

The amount of times people post on mums groups do I wean at 24 weeks if the recommendation is 6 months.

NO! You weaning on the day of their birth 6 months later.

Also I have a 13 months and a 25 month old.

So they are 1&2 then

Another friend wrote "I can't believe DS will be 3 in 6 months" to which I responded "I thought his birthday was Jan 2nd". She then quickly edited it.

Why though? Just let your friends be it's not hurting anyone. I just don't see what you are getting out of this, why is it so important to put everyone right?

Just be grateful for a friend who cares enough to keep track of the precise number of weeks. No one else cares about this as much as you, the mother, do (probably including the father).

Remember - WWES?*

[*What would Elsa say?]

Yabu to waste precious energy on a hot day like today (or any day in fact) giving a fig whether your FB friend posts months instead of weeks and is therefore a bit inaccurate. If it irritates you that much hide her, because seriously, there are bigger things to get upset about! I think she'd probably be about you if she read this.

Well my DD is 8,339 days. Maybe I should round it up to 8,340

RiverTam I already have a DD and don't post anything about her.

Oops - thought she was talking about your DS not hers, sorry!

The obsession with weeks not months and months not years with PFB is so bad it inspired a spoof thread by Do I LTB because he let MIL give my 4518 week old a Fruit Shoot?

Was quite funny

YABU

Get a grip OP

peppa are you me? I never knew with PFB so by DC3 I barely knew how many months she was.

Does it actually matter?

This thread is up there with the "which way round do you hang your toilet roll?" as truly one of the most boring threads in the whole history of Mumsnet ever.

She's been about me for years Snow! She told me I'm autistic.

Well my DD is 8,339 days. Maybe I should round it up to 8,340

Don't you dare, each day is precious and they pass so quickly! (except in the summer holidays when time goes backwards)

I can't believe you all can get so excited about this! Weeks, months, years...who on earth fucking cares about this?!

Well my DD is 8,339 days. Maybe I should round it up to 8,340

Oh please, don't give them any ideas! It's bad enough with the age in weeks, let's stop here pretty please. Why do people do that?

OP, your friend rounded up. Leave her be, I want to meet her, she sounds lovely.

You sound really fucking petty and not very nice at all even if you are right

I find the months thing very twee after the first year. Unless you are speaking to GP, HCP or some other person with a vested interest in specifics then round it to a number.

Meh, close enough. Shrug.