You're not ten and a half months pregnant!! (lighthearted)

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Anyone else get just a little wound up by this?! Women who are 42 weeks calling themselves 10.5 months pregnant. Err no. You're 40 weeks from conception, 280 days, which equates to nine months and a tiny bit. I know pregnancy feels like a decade but come on.

They're wrong and it's silly, but if they're 42 weeks pregnant you should feel lucky they haven't strangled you yet.

I would think if you are 42 weeks pregnant you can say what you want and won't give rats arse what someone else thinks...

A friend of mine FB status's got more and more hostile every day she was overdue...It was a relief when she gave birth ..lol...so be careful if you are going to tell anyone..

That said I have never heard anyone else say that

ambereeree Wed 20-Sep-17 12:10:29
"When a woman is 42 weeks agree with everything she says."

This seems fair enough.

When a woman is 42 weeks agree with everything she says

amen to that

My friend used to do this, count months in 4 week periods. So when she was 28 weeks she thought she was 7 months pregnant, except obviously...she wasn't.

I got to 42 weeks and I never considered myself 10 and a half months pregnant! I thought that I was just over 9....I'm shit at maths. Was I correct?

DS1 was born at 42+5. It felt like 10.5 months tho.

My irritation is when people say their baby was 2 weeks premature. My DS2 was 3 weeks and 2 days early. He was not premature. and he was still 10 fucking pounds!!

I imagine it's because there are quite a few people who are convinced a month is 4 weeks.

I've had some very interesting conversations with patients who are adamant that 12 weeks = 3 months! This becomes quite significant when their depo is due at 12 weeks and they think otherwise...

as someone who was induced at 42 weeks with both DC, YABU. Just nod and smile. The 2nd DC, the muscle in my thigh started seizing up in the last week. Fun times.

if they're 42 weeks pregnant you should feel lucky they haven't strangled you yet.

This!

I was 40 + 8 when my DS was born.

I was prepared to murder my DP if he was to bring the wrong cupcakes home.

I've been 16 days overdue, now that sucks.

I am always amazed during pregnancy discussions at the number of people who genuinely can't understand the concept of days/weeks/months.

As in, "9 x 4 is 36 so are pregnancies actually 10 months long?" Seriously?

I'd have to move before I murdered one of them. I don't suffer fools at all gladly.

We have our faults down here in the SE, but you'd be safe from that particular bit of fuckwittery.

The 13 months in a year and the 10 months preg. things are daft.

BUT i have to defend people who age their under three's in months. In development terms there's a world of difference in expectations between, for example, a 12 month old and a 22 month old so that's the terms used in health care and that's what you get used to thinking in. Once they're over 3 it's a bit OTT though.

Desperation? Last dtd with DH 10 and a half months ago😀

When I went into M&S to buy food at 42+2, the cashier asked how many months I was. I replied 'nine and a half', she immediately called for someone to pack my bags and you have never seen anyone scan so fast

But 9.5, 10.5, whatever - it's past 9, FFS, get that thing out, don't argue with me!

BUT i have to defend people who age their under three's in months. In development terms there's a world of difference in expectations between, for example, a 12 month old and a 22 month old so that's the terms used in health care and that's what you get used to thinking in. Once they're over 3 it's a bit OTT though.

Agreed, though it depends who's asking. EYFS professional, HE, etc, be precise. Someone at the bus stop making polite conversation only needs "two in October".

I've been 42 weeks pregnant and you were lucky to get near me without being glared to death. Never heard anyone claim a ten and a half month pregnancy before, but I did for a short time have a neighbour who always got her tiny, walking talking 23-month-old to tell people she was one, just so everyone would gasp in admiration.

On the 'premature' thing - my dc1 was born at 38 weeks, which I think is now referred to as 'early term'. He was obviously not 'premature', in any shape or form, but I think he was earlier than he should have been (possibly - if his head had got any bigger giving birth might have been even trickier than it already was...) and he had a bit of a time adjusting to the world. My second and third were term plus 8 and 10 days (induced) respectively, which in my mind supports my theory. Even with dc1, though, I don't say he was premature or even 'early', nor that the others were 'late'. Term is covered by 37 to 42 weeks.

I stopped month-aging dd once she was comfortably 'going on 2', so at 21 months or so.

We don't say we are 468 months old if we're nearly 40 do we?

I definitely don't, I might try it to the next person that does it to me and let them figure out how old I am!

To me, month aging ends at 12 months then it goes to years.

By 42 weeks it feels like 42 months.

But, yeah.

My friend used to do this, count months in 4 week periods. So when she was 28 weeks she thought she was 7 months pregnant, except obviously...she wasn't.

I had same. argument with a friend of a friend who swore pregnancy was 10 months, not 9. she was counting a month as 4 weeks, so 40 weeks = 10 months. Therefore pregnancy is 10 months.

My irritation is when people say their baby was 2 weeks premature

My work colleague calls her baby her "little premie miracle" she was born at 37+4.

I said my sister's babies were prem and that I didn't consider 37 weeks prem as you are full term then, she asked then they were born, I said 24+2 and she said oh that's what's referred to as super prem....

I can see where the 10.5 month claim comes from, though - DS1 was conceived in February, due mid November and dug his heels in until December. (He's still a stubborn git).