Monday, June 29, 2009

How far along are you?

The age old question that you will hear approximately 213043904 times while you are pregnant. This is not an easy question to answer! To people who have never been pregnant - a pregnancy is 9 months long. Well let me show you how this gets confusing -- pregnancy is actually 40 weeks long, which may or may not technically be 9 months. See a month isnt exactly 4 weeks long, although most of us think that way for some reason. So here we go - ask me how far along I am -- I'm 22 weeks. Well, how many months is that? Uhmmm (22 wks divided by 4 wks/month) = 5 1/2 months. Okay, so you have 3 1/2 months left? But you're due Nov 2nd, which is 4 months away. See are you confused yet?!!
Then it gets real confusing because instead of referring to someone as how much they have completed, its really about what month you are "in". Yes, I know this makes no sense and quite obviously was made up by some guy who was never pregnant. So I found this chart to help us all be less confused.
Wks 1-4 = You're in your 1st month, this is Month #1, 1st Trimester
Wks 5-8 = You're in your 2nd month, This is Month #2, 1st Trimester
Wks 9-13 = You're in your 3rd month, This is Month #3, 1st Trimester
Wks 14-17 = You're in your 4th month, This is Month #4, 2nd Trimester
Wks 18-21 = You're in your 5th month, This is Month #5, 2nd Trimester
Wks 22-26 = You're in your 6th month, This is Month #6, 2nd Trimester
Wks 27-30 = You're in your 7th month, This is Month #7, 3rd Trimester
Wks 31-35= You're in your 8th month, This is Month #8, 3rd Trimester
Wks 36-40= You're in your 9th month, This is Month #9, 3rd Trimester
And for all lucky ladies who are pregnant longer than 40 months - just call yourself a beached whale, because they dont give ya a classification apparently!

So if you're still reading because you're a weird numbers person like me,
I am supposedly 6 months pregnant @ 22 weeks.
Here's me:

So the real question is, do I look pregnant yet?! Its still somewhat debatable, but my belly is definately popping out at this point.
The scale was also quite nice to me this week & after gaining a pound a week for the last 8 weeks, I stayed the same this week! Yes, Im one of those anal people who weigh themselves everyday.

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