Pregnant for 9 months not 10

[Irishfarmer]

Ok, I am pretty sure I am being unreasonable but sure anyway!

It has always bugged me when friends have said 'it's actually 10 months you're pregnant for' with a sort of in the know grin. I had 1 in particular go on about it when she was pregnant that all of the world has had it wrong since we started recording these things. But it's not. It is 9 months. I have heard several other women saying it in different settings.

I get where her maths is coming from 40 weeks/ 4 = 10 months.

BUT most months do not stop at 28 days.

If that was the case 52 weeks/ 4 = 13 months I am not aware of a 13th month in the year.

22nd May to 22nd June you would say is one month away, not one month and 3 days. Those 3 days p/m over a pregnancy adds up to 27 days.

My LMP was October, my baby is due this July, by my count that is 9 months.

Yes I know little to be worrying about and yes I can get pedantic. No I do not and have not ever countered a pregnant woman who says pregnancy is 10 months IRL.

Youre not even pregnant for the first two weeks.

I only ever count pregnancy in weeks. Counting it in months just doesn't compute in my brain!

The first two weeks you are “pregnant” you haven’t even ovulated, so it’s really only 38 weeks anyway.

It's only 38 weeks from conception (not LMP) to due date, and you don't even know straight away. If you added a week overdue it's still only 39 weeks, which is 9 months exactly.

They are being thick to equate months with exactly 4 weeks. Did these friends go to school?

A month is 4.333 weeks long on average.

I've never even heard anyone say it's 10 months.

But I also wouldn't worry what others day. Just say X number of weeks or your due date/ month.

Crap, I had included that in my rant somewhere but must have deleted it! I deleted a good chunk as I was rambling 😂

Look if these women choose to be stupid, let them. We have many articles online and helpful guides to explain it. I just fear for their children, if they can't work that out the kids have no hope.

Then you often don't know for another two weeks.

I worked with a Japanese woman, years ago, who said that in Japan they talk about 10 months. Not 9. Which caused some confusion.

Isn't it in reference to lunar months? That was my understanding of some people considering it 10 months

A human pregnancy (38 weeks; you're not even pregnant for the first two of the 40) is c.266 days. That is nowhere near ten months!
I know when both of mine were conceived, they were both more or less on time according to due date and turned up around a week short of 9 calendar months.

It's much easier to count it in weeks anyway. And most people I know have either gone over or under.

Yes! It's annoying.

Like when someone says "My child is 2.7 years old". They typically mean 2 years and 7 months, but writing it as 2.7 actually means nearly 2 years 8 and a half months.

I wouldn’t worry too much about it but is the ‘knowing look’ because they are talking about lunar months/menstrual cycles/ spooky feminine months that only women with their mysterious ways know about?

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that pregnancy is not 10 months. I thought I was going to be shot down. One who insisted on it being 10 months is an actual friend and i wouldn't say she's stupid a bit alternative maybe. Others I've heard on about maybe aren't the brightest buttons and hear 40 weeks.

I'm 38 weeks pregnant but had a miscarriage just before this pregnancy so I feel like I've been pregnant for the last 11 months...

Sorry you went through a miscarriage💖

I know someone who also had a miscarriage (she was about 5/6 weeks pregnant) she actively said she was 11 months pregnant. Not felt like it. That she WAS 11 months pregnant

40 weeks from LMP to EDC is how they measure it
But as we all know the baby will come when it's good and ready🤣

Maybe they are pregnant for 10 months of February’s 🤣🤣

I was pregnant for about 6738383 years with DS2. At least it felt like it.
In reality it was 41+3
(Or 39+3 if you allow for the "your not pregnant for the first 2 weeks. Which no one did when I had babies)

But yes. Pregnancy is on average (based on how the NHS count it) 40 weeks, or 9 months.

Thank you.
If I go overdue I can see myself having a "I've been pregnant for 11 months, get this baby OUT" moment

Anywhere from 37 to 42 weeks is considered normal full term so it's bit of daft thing to discuss in absolutes anyway.

@AwkwardPaws27 sorry about your mc 💔I hadn't considered that. I had my last MC Aug 2021, 8 weeks in. Got pregnant again in October. No wonder I feel like I've been pregnant forever!! You're nearly there 😁

@Irishfarmer sorry to hear you've been through similar. I'm so grateful to be pregnant but yes it does feel like agggeeeesss, doesn't it?! Not long to go now!