stupid question

[hannahkj19]

okay i know this is probably a stupid question but i really need to know! when they say that you can't give a baby dairy until 6 months do they mean 6 calendar months or 6 lunar months ie 24 weeks?! it's really bugging me and have just been discussing it with other mums who seem just as clueless (we're all first timers, you'd never guess lol)

TIA xxx

Usually it means 26 weeks. A year is 52 weeks exactly. So half a year is 26 weeks. Months are different in lengths.

And btw, lunar months aren't 24 weeks.

I mean it aren't 24 weeks exactly either. A lunar month varies from 29 to 30 days.

thank you for clearing it up! yeah lunar months was probs the wrong description for it! xxx

So a lunar month would be just over 21 weeks, but that's irrelevant.

The 6 months is calendar months, which as said above averages 26 weeks.

It doesn't matter - the development age of the baby will differ more than the difference in weeks between the two. Not sure why it's bugging you so much? Are you desperate to give baby something?