A question of age... Is 6 months technically 26 weeks

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right, sorry this sounds a bit daft but just out of interest do other mums count their wee ones age by a month in general or by 4 weeks? I'm curious as I thought our 8 month check was soon to be up but then the other day a mum described her DS as 7 months old and he was a week older than mine. And a book said to wean at 26 weeks (6 months) but I had been counting 6 months as 24 weeks). It's true this isn't important stuff I realize (the fact I'm frazzled by night wakings is much more so but hey I'm just going with it!) but was just musing... ta

Six months is 26 weeks - there are 52 weeks in a year. So you'll have his birthday four weeks early if you keep counting in weeks

Hi, yeah I had the same issue when it got to weaning time. i think it works as months from the birth date ie. my baby was born on 18th nov so was 11 months on 18 oct. not sure when you start doing months rather than weeks, but for me i forgot the number of weeks he was after about 18 weeks! anyway, i started weaning at 5 and a half months, so he probably was abut 26 weeks then.

ha yeah quite! that would be a bit mean to change his birthday!

I stopped counting too. My brain just can't be bothered with numbers at the moment... thanks for that advice though. I knew I'd gone wrong somewhere along the line!

Hunker - you always make me laugh

yep you're right hunker. I can only blame my crazed lack of sleep for the dopey mistake!

on that note i wonder what other stuff people have done because of lack of sleep and general baby induced zombiness! I tried on a top and was half way up the road before realizing I'd put my shirt on inside out... some teenagers had a good old chuckle at me

I have a friend who gets really testy about this, insists that medically 16 weeks is 4 months, and 24 weeks is 6 months, that that's how the doctors and HVs do it, so that's the only way that's right, etc. She is absolutely adamant about it. Can't really blame her, most schools teach that 4 weeks is a month, too, don't they?

I have a friend who insists you are pregnant for 10 months because ther are 4 weeks in a month but 4 weeks is 28 days and only one month has 28 days.
She just will not accept that it is 9 months and approx 2 weeks by the time you have all the other extra days added up right.

well i feel silly! but hey sleep deprivation does strange things to the brain...