I must be having serious preggo brain If I'm 26.5 weeks, how many months does that make me. 6.5 right????

I think my brain has taken flight!

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Blessed beyond measure

Yes, 6.5....almost 7. I never kept up with months when I was pregnant w/ds1. Everything doctor related was in weeks. So when someone asked me how many months I was, I would say "My doctor goes by weeks, and I'm almost 18 weeks pregnant" Let them figure it out in months if they want to! LOL

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Formerly Mommy2Ryan

Well you can't really exactly convert wks to months because if you only count 4 wks per month then you're actually pregnant 10 months!!! instead of 9 (since it's 40 wks). So if you do the math :

26.5 weeks out of 40 weeks
is to X months out of 9 months
so 26.5 times 9=238.5
divide by 40 weeks= 5.96 months


So basically you're 6 "months"

Another perhaps easier way of looking at the math is that a trimester (or three of the 9 months) is 1/3 of the 40 wks or 13.3 wks. So again, your 26.5 is about 26.6 wks or two trimester....in other words 6 months.

But you probably didn't want to do math so early in the morning did you?!?

So just look at it as you're 2/3 of the way there, so 6 months!!!

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I go by weeks when I talk to my girlfriends but one of my neighbors asked me how many months I was and I went blank! Then, I thought about it too much and confused myself. I sound totally blond! LOL Oh well.

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Blessed beyond measure

Oh, much better at math than me! LOL I had you almost an extra month!! I didn't think about dividing it by the 40 weeks, but that is true

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Formerly Mommy2Ryan

THANKS! This is what was confusing me. I couldn't figure out how to "convert" the weeks into months. I know the two don't jive but it was hurting my brain to think of the actual math! Thanks again

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Blessed beyond measure

Math was always my VERY favorite subject in school. I've lost most of my skills since all I do is convert percentages off when shopping now but I can still do a few things. It was actually fun to use the old algebra brain here!!

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