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to think that 16 weeks is not 4 months!

142 replies

EnoughAlready999 · 15/08/2016 15:09

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!

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ComeLuckyApril · 15/08/2016 16:01

I get really annoyed by this too!

Amelie10 · 15/08/2016 16:04

Op you sound like a drain! Boring as you can get, this really gets you going?

FlyHighLittleBee · 15/08/2016 16:05

So when people ask me how old DD is, I should just say 1? And not 17 months? Because surely they know by looking at her she's one - and they're asking how many months she is. No?

cherryplumbanana · 15/08/2016 16:09

So when people ask me how old DD is, I should just say 1? And not 17 months?

one and 1/2 will do. As above, unless it's a GP or a childminder, no one cares about the details. Truly, they don't. (and no-one cares about the birth weight either frankly).

Farfromtheusual · 15/08/2016 16:10

No, you say 1 and a half Hmm

Nocabbageinmyeye · 15/08/2016 16:12

I'd say a year and a half at 17 months, although I might a thread started about me for it Grin as pp unless it's a gp/hv them nobody really cares anyway

NavyandWhite · 15/08/2016 16:12

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TheCrumpettyTree · 15/08/2016 16:14

I have a 24 month old. Grin

Seriously, when some people talk about their 39 month old. They're 3.

veryproudvolleyballmum · 15/08/2016 16:14

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AnnaBegins · 15/08/2016 16:15

I get you OP, it becomes annoying when it's presented as a milestone. If you were chatting and asked her baby's age I'd expect her to say 4 months, to post on Facebook as a milestone I'd expect 16 weeks. Where it gets annoying is people for example giving their babies baby rice at 15 weeks because "it's pretty much 4 months". No, it isn't.

chameleon43 · 15/08/2016 16:17

OP - you actually corrected a friend's post about her child's age on FB? ROFL.

Seriously - get a grip.

NotYoda · 15/08/2016 16:21

I think that she's appealing to the widest possible audience by saying 4 months. Most people who are not knee-deep in nappies talk in months, not weeks.

I think it's a strange thing for you to get annoyed about.

But then I get annoyed by how the automated voice on my bus home says my stop, so..... (never started a thread about it)

NotYoda · 15/08/2016 16:22

cherry

Yes. I'm not on FB because I can't get over the fact that most people probably don't care what I'd post. and I don't care about most of what they'd post

MrsJayy · 15/08/2016 16:23

I prefer the 4months to 16 weeks it works out in the end nobody ever got confused by the time their child reached a year Grin

MrsJayy · 15/08/2016 16:24

I did see somebody on here say my dc is 38 months though that is pushing it

NotYoda · 15/08/2016 16:25

Maybe your friend knows she'll be too busy to post when her child is actually 4 months old, so she's getting her boring-things-nobody-cares-about facts in early

Vickyyyy · 15/08/2016 16:28

You are correct of course. I used to do this though, just easier (and nearly right) to say 4 months at 16 weeks...

veryproudvolleyballmum · 15/08/2016 16:30

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Ffion3107 · 15/08/2016 16:31

Yanbu
This gets on my nerves too!!!
I know it's close enough but it's not 4 months, it's 16 weeks!!

EttaJ · 15/08/2016 16:34

proudvolley 😂 I actually know people that say that but not as extreme lol . It drives me crazy.

davos · 15/08/2016 16:34

I can't believe you go round corrected people's DC ages.

Yabvu. It's close enough.

I do know someone who told me their child was 38 months old. I said something like 'so 3 then?'

Vickyyyy · 15/08/2016 16:35

I have a friend who whinges when I say DD is 3 and a half. Apparently this is incorrect and she is 45 months. At what age do we stop speaking in months or weeks? I am not 29, I am 355 months Grin God that makes me feel even more ancient than the fact I am soon 30 :S

bibbitybobbityyhat · 15/08/2016 16:50

"I get you OP, it becomes annoying when it's presented as a milestone. If you were chatting and asked her baby's age I'd expect her to say 4 months, to post on Facebook as a milestone I'd expect 16 weeks. Where it gets annoying is people for example giving their babies baby rice at 15 weeks because "it's pretty much 4 months". No, it isn't."

I actually cannot believe my eyes ^^ after reading that post. And don't anyone dare tell me I was like this with my pfb because I can guarantee you I wasn't.

If ever living proof were needed that AIBU should be renamed Petty Gripes with maybe a sub topic for threads like this one named Extraordinarily Petty Gripes

Pseudonym99 · 15/08/2016 16:53

It's when people say 10.5 pounds when they mean 10 pounds 5 ounces. 10.5 means ten and a half. Or 2.5 years when they mean 2 years and 5 months. 2.5 years means 2 years and 6 months!

ComeLuckyApril · 15/08/2016 16:54

People aren't even reading the OP! Nothing wrong with celebrating four months. When the child IS ACTUALLY FOUR MONTHS. It's annoying me even more now with all these responses. It's inaccurate maths.