Abbie81

Hi,
can enyone help me work this one out....im 19 weeks pregnant, which in my calculation is 1 week off 5 months, yeah? and my abay is due on 29th june, well, thats another 5 months away Am i just being really stupid or will that mean iv been pregnant for 10 months by the time i give birth?????

babyblessed

Not thought of it like that!!! I am due June 30th, I would say I am just reaching the start of my 5th month...?

Vickie

It's kind of strange the way they calculate it isn't it? You are really pregnant for 9 1/2 months. But there is a difference between the actual gestational age of the baby and the the week you are in your pregnancy. Since they can only estimate your due date (via your last period) and you don't usually ovulate and implant until a few weeks after, the gestational age of the baby is 2 weeks younger than will show on your ticker, if that makes any sense at all? Like I'm 15 weeks pregnant, but the gestational age of the baby is 13 weeks. So counting by the tickers you are pregnant for 40 weeks=ten months, but when you subtract 2 weeks for the gestational age you are pregnant for 9 1/2 months. It's so confusing!!

I hope I made sense If not maybe one of the others can explain it better.

cupcake

abbie we are the same, im 19 wks due end of june like you
so yes we are in our fifth month of pregnancy, or almost 5 full months pregnant.
as vickie said the baby is actually two weeks "younger" than how man wks preggers u are becasue they count it from your last period. i had a whole thread about this coz i was really confused took me ages to figure it out.
so were almost half way hun! heres to a happy healthy second half!

Firsttimer

I always go by weeks when people ask me how far I am its better . Also some months have 5 months instead of 4 so thats why as well. Im 28 weeks that should be 7 months but I got 3 months left I just say Im 6 and half months if people want to know in months

babyblessed

Geez they do make it hard on a girl...my brain isn't working the best at the mo as it is!!!!

ElliesMum

There's another way of looking at it.

40 weeks preg

Approx 4 weeks in a month

10 x 4 = 40 week

Which makes it approx 10 months.

I've prob just confused everyone even more now!!!

charlottecco2

Its the chinese Lunar months, they say there are 10 months in pregnancy and count every 4 weeks as a month. xx

Margerle

The average pregnancy is 266 to 280 days from the first day of your LAST PERIOD.

266 days / 7 days in a week = 38 weeks

280 days / 7 days in a week = 40 weeks

38 weeks / 4 weeks in a month = 9.5 months

40 weeks / 4 weeks in a month = 10 months

So the average pregnancy lasts 9.5 to 10 months from the first day of your last period.

But as everyone said, you ovulate and conceive sometime (usually around 14-20 days AFTER the first day of your last period).

So your baby is actually 14-20 days YOUNGER than the numbers above because they couldn't have existed until the egg met the sperm 14-20 days after your first day of your last period.

Does that help?