How Pregnant Am I?

Since Baby2See might be gone, I’m going to repost a few of the really useful items from the site so I have them (while I can still find them somewhere online). One of the things I loved from the site was a pregnancy length chart, that showed how the various ways of counting the time in pregnancy related to one another.

See, doctors have started counting pregnancy as 40 weeks long (starting from the first day last menstrual period) because they’ve found it more reliable than trying to determine when conception was. I’ve actually had people tell me this means that pregnancy is 10 months long, but that’s wrong — because really months aren’t made up of only 4 weeks, they’re usually a few days longer than that (30 or 31 days, not 28). After all, a year is 52 weeks long. This chart does a great job of breaking down pregnancy length (of course, note that other sources may have different breakdowns available):

Weeks	1 - 4	5 - 8	9 - 13	14 - 17	18 - 21	22 - 26	27 - 30	31 - 35	36 - 40
Which Month are you in?	You are in your first month	You are in your second month	You are in your third month	You are in your fourth month	You are in your fifth month	You are in your sixth month	You are in your seventh month	You are in your eighth month	You are in your ninth month
This is Month	one	two	three	four	five	six	seven	eight	nine
Trimester	first			second			third

(This awesome table used to appear at http://www.baby2see.com/pregnancylength.html.)

On Thursday I’ll be 24 weeks (I’m going to run with the December 3rd due date for now, since it makes more sense to us — from what I’ve read I’ll probably be at least a week late anyway). I’ve finished five months. I’m in my sixth month. (I’ve been telling people I’m a little over 5 months pregnant, or just say over halfway).

I think they make it confusing on purpose.

Published: 08.12.08 / 10pm | Filed Under: pregnant

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