Simple math at that.
This is for anyone who is pregnant now or who will be pregnant in the future (which, in my opinion, should be all of you!)
This has been one of my biggest pet peeves.
4 weeks DOES NOT EQUAL 1 month.
Well, it does 1/16th of the time. As on a non-leap year February, happening 3 times every 48 months, 4 weeks does equal 1 month.
But 1/16th if far from 100%. Actually, it's not right 93.75% of the time.
So why, WHY do people continuously think "Hey, I'm 24 weeks, that means I'm 6 months!
No, no, no. If we want to be technical, and come on, math ~is~ pretty technical, 24 weeks is 5.54 months. Which can be broken down to 5m16.425d. Oh yeah, I'm going there.
I just don't understand where people think "4 weeks = 1 month". It just doesn't. And my math head doesn't want to compute it. Not in the least.
... Once (and still) Infertile, but still Schnarky as hell. This blog is dedicated to the daily ramblings from the mind of Nancy. It isn't about anything profound in the grand scheme of things, but it ~is~ about things in my life, schnarkiness always included. I have a second blog, listed in my profile, but the blogs will continue to remain separate.
"I'm aiming for heaven, but I'll probably wind up down in hell"
About Me
- nancy
- I am a 39 year old woman. I am the mother of two beautiful daughters and a handsome son. I am a career woman. As for my TTC world, it certainly doesn't seem like I am "infertile", but I fought for my pregnancies and my TTC/IF history is on the sidebar. I have two blogs, which are both listed in my profile. One focuses on my daily life - including IF, TTC, pregnancy, delivery and even some "children mentioned" posts. The second blog is ~soley~ posts directly about being the mother to my three children.
Belly Pics for #3 only.
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My TTC History
- Jul 01 ~ married
- Jan 02 ~ First cycle off bcps and opk shows ovulation!
- Dec 02 ~ Went to pcp for RE referral
- Jan 03 ~ Testing commences. S/A perfect. HSG clear.
- Feb 03 ~ Lap #1. All clear.
- Apr 03 ~ Clomid cycle #1. BFN.
- May 03 ~ Clomid cycle #2. BFN.
- Jun 03 ~ Clomid cycle #3. BFN.
- Jul 03 ~ Supposed to be IUI#1, but we missed cd3 so natural cycle
- Aug 03 ~ BFP on C18.
- Apr 04 ~ Ella born.
- Oct 04 ~ decided to ttc #2 and went off minipill to see if I am ovulating. I am. Will start next month.
- Nov 04 ~ TTC#2 starts. BFP. Holy Crap. No freaking way. No way.
- Aug 05 ~ Allison born
- Oct 06 ~ IUD removed. TTC#3
- Jan 07 ~ Large cysts found.
- Feb 07 ~ Femara cyle #1
- Mar 07 ~ Started w/ RE. HSG #2 showed R tube blocked. S/A normal.
- Mar 07 ~ more cysts, up to 9cms.
- Apr 07 ~ more cysts, 3 @ 7-9cms.
- May 07 ~ IUI #1 cancelled due to more cysts
- Jun 07 ~ IUI #1 (take two) w/ Clomid. BFN.
- Jul 07 ~ HSS showed scar tissue in 70% of uterus. Diagnosed with Asherman's Syndrome. Uterine surgery #2
- Aug 07 ~ HSG #3 showed clear tubes.
- Aug 07 ~ IUI #2 w/ Femara. BFN.
- Sept 07 ~ Monitored w/ hCG trigger. BFN.
- Oct 07 ~ HSS #2 showed scar tissue in 30% of uterus. Uterine surgery #3.
- Dec 07 ~ HSS #3 showed tiny amount of scar tissue. Uterine surgery #4.
- Jan 08 ~ HSS #4 showed clear uterus.
- Jan 08 ~ IUI #3, C16. BFN.
- Mar 08 ~ IVF #1, Transfer Cancelled due to lining. Out of 15 eggs, 9 were mature and all 9 fertilized. I have named my 9 embryos "The Mod Squad" and they are in the freezer, waiting for mommy to be ready.
- Apr/May 08 ~ FET #1. C20. 4 embryos "The Fab Four" transferred on 5/05. BFP!!! Very Low Beta (15 at 11dp3dt) but the numers continued to double every 48 hours. Told it was "most likely not viable" and later "most likely ectopic" but we beat all the odds.
- May 16, 08 ~ 11dp3dt (4w0d), beta #1: 15
- May 19, 08 ~ 14dp3dt (4w3d), beta #2: 43
- May 23, 08 ~ 18dp3dt (5w0d), beta#3: 213
- May 27, 22dp3dt (5w4d), beta #4: 1,073
- Jun 08 - Ultrasound showed one heartbeat at 7 weeks.
- Jul 08 - Had CVS testing. Chromosomes are normal and it's a BOY!! EDD: 1/23
- Aug 08 - Jan 09 ~ High risk due to: 1) Velamentous Cord Insertion, deemed biggest risk 2) Previous Placenta Accreta 3) Previous rapid degraged placenta 4) IVF alone can create weak placenta 5) AMA - Advanced Maternal Age. -- All resulting in almost 30 u/s and lots of testing, which ended up saving my life.
- Jan 09 (38w0d) ~ Karl is born! -- Crazy 3 days in hospital. Manual version to flip baby from breech to head down, Labor, Delivery, Emergency surgery due to cord detaching from placenta, Scary heart issues from losing over 40% of my blood supply, and then a blood transfusion due to the extreme loss of blood. Whew!
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26 comments:
Yeah, I agree. I can't stand it when I ask someone how far along they are and they tell me months. That doesn't help me at all!
I am a "weeks" person, myself!
I am especially sensitive to this issue because I have to get my rheumatoid arthritis medication which I inject once a week. Insurance companies only allow for purchasing once a month so I have to extend each week by a day in order to inject in a reasonably timely manner. Paychecks work in the same way. If you get paid every two weeks, you actually get paid every two weeks. If you get paid twice a month, well, you lose a paycheck.
I agree... this drives me ABSOLUTELY crazy... especially when someone asks "if I am 24 weeks how many months does that make me" and someone replies with "well there are 4 weeks in a month" like the OP is stupid and "should have known that"... Im like HELLO 4 weeks = 28 days... what happened to the 29th, 30th, and sometimes 31st? It annoys me so much that I have just stopped trying to correct them.
I like to know things by weeks, but in my blog organizing I am totally guilty of clumping four weeks into a month. As in everything written from this week (12) through the end of week 16 I will label Month 4. But I think that has more to being blog lazy than a crappy math person (which I also am...)
While I am not now pregnant, and will not be in the future, I was pregnant twice. I found it easiest to say I am 24 weeks and when they got that look on their face like WTF does that mean I would say "about 5.5 months along".
Just like when the babies were getting older, I would say they like 20 months and get the same stupid look so I would say just over 1 1/2.
I think people expect everything to be dumbed down. It is very annoying.
OMG I couldn't agree more! And its not just in pregnancy!
When I was on bcp (7 looooooooooooong years!) My dr would only write 1 Rx w/ 11 refills a year (4 x 12 = 48 weeks, no?). AND she wouldn't renew the Rx without an annual Pap (not a bad policy). BUT, my insurance would only cover 1 Pap a (calendar)year. It took a LONG time to make them unnderstand that if I had my Pap appt in Jan, I'd need another in Dec, and insurance wasn't going to cover it. I had to beg, plead, and actually SHOW THEM THE MATH to squeak an extra freaking "month" of pills out of her.
SO FRUSTRATING!
This drove me batty on pregnancy boards and when I took the time to explain it, I got the online equivalent to a blank stare.
I quit trying to correct.
But, really, how hard is it just to count months from the date of your LMP?
I LOVE MATH!!!!
My biggest pet peeve was when you found out you were pregnant you were approx 4 weeks pregnant when in reality you had only conceived about 2 weeks ago.
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Hey Nancy,
I'm just so glad you are doing well. And yes, I count by weeks and try to convert to months or folks a who cant do the math.
I think it's more common sense, or it should be anyway. I'm a week person too. And when people on the boards are confused, well, I understand those "online" blank stares. There was one other person that I can remember that had it down and understood it and tried to explain it to some of the others. It was a loosing battle though.
Thank you! I totally hate that too.
I'm jealous you actually look pregnant. I look fat
I just tell people to divide by 4.3 - It's close enough but they still look confounded.
Ah, but it does if you mean lunar months!
Which is okay, as long as everyone speaks in lunar months and not cal. ones :)
J
It's always bugged me too. I just tend to refer to what month of pregnancy I'm in. Right now I'm 28 weeks so that puts in about the end of the 6th, beginning of the 7th month. I tend to just say how many weeks though if someone asks me. Unless I'm trying to gain sympathy, lol.
You are right - math IS technical!!
Some people just don't get it. Geez.
Nancy~
Im sorry...I didn't mean to make any of the 30's sound old, because it's really not, Im just dumb and anal like that. I apologize if I offended you or anything..I know its not old..and God now Im rambling..Im done..LOL
Ha ha! I always say weeks- I honestsly I can't seem to do the quick math on the spot to figure out the months- but everyone I've told/has asked so far figures in weeks too. so that works just fine for me...
I can't stand it when a certain family member and I are discussing teenage pregnancy and she says, "Well, if they had the baby at 17 then that means they got pregnant at 16." Not true all the time, because that would mean some people were pregnant for 13 months. It is possible to squeeze all that in one birthday calendar year. Do the math!
This is why I hate when people ask how far along I am. It is much easier to just tell people how many weeks, but then they get all confused and ask how many months that is. I may be an accountant, but I don't do math in my head. At all. It's a problem, really.
I'm definitely a weeks person.
Oh yeah, this drives me nuts. I've had people try to tell me that pregnancy actually lasts for 10 months because it's 40 weeks.
Here from ICLW but felt compelled to comment on an older post.
I'm guessing people are afflicted with the lazy. It's so much easier to just think 4w=1m.
Once I get there I'm going to be a weeks person not cos I love math but because it makes more sense to me that way...
This drives me freaking crazy... and what is even more annoying is that people just don't get it. They insist that pregnancy is 10 months long. They insist that 4 weeks equals a month "because that is what all my pregnancy books say". Ok then, are you going to start using a lunar calendar in your day to day life?
I too have just given up trying to explain it.
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