Most people think of a pregnancy as 9 months (another one of those big lies). You’ll see on various tickers I post:
A pregnancy is measured in 40 weeks. 40 weeks? Isn’t that 10 months? Why, yes. A normal person can see that’s that’s 10 months. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
From KidsHealth.org
Your EDD is 40 weeks from the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP). If you deliver on your EDD, your baby is actually only 38 weeks old – that’s because your egg didn’t become fertilized until about 2 weeks after the start of your last menstrual period.
Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense to me either. I believe some dude came up with the counting, that’s the only way it’s almost logical. Probably some dumbfuck like Bill “I-can-diagnose-you-from-a-4-year-old-video-” Frist came up with it ’cause it’s so “biblical” and, for the most part, men fall over themselves to control females claiming the Bible, Tor’ah or Qur’an back them up. Liars. Anyway, as you can see I’m 5w2d (5 weeks, 3 days). You do the math. Click here to see the wonderful advice I got today.
The freaky thing is when you hit the 5 – 7 month part. We have it in our heads that a “month” is 4 weeks. One day someone will ask, “How far along are you?” And you’ll reply, “I’m 25 weeks, wait…I’m 5 months…well okay, 25 weeks, but…” and it just degenerates from there. I usually give the time in months and be done with it. No one really cares anyway, they’re just asking to be polite. Besides, at that point even though you’re showing you’ll probably be over the pregnancy.
More on that later…
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