36 or 40?

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Does anyone has any reasoning as to why they say 40 weeks when in actuality 40 weeks is 10 months. I never found an explanation that was logical. I hope it’s not cause carrying a baby for 9 months just sound better?🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

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Months are longer than 4 weeks....

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Pregnancy is technically 10 months. You’re 10 months when you hit 40 weeks. 9 months is 36w-39w6d.

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A year is 52 weeks, but that’s not divisible by 12 because months aren’t 4 perfect weeks.

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Because months are actually longer than 4 weeks so no, you are not pregnant for 10 months.

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You never found an explanation?? Because your 28 day cycle counts as your first 4 weeks. It starts when you start your period. Then around day 14 is when you ovulate and can become pregnant. And then at 14 days past ovulation is when you miss your period. And would be 4 weeks pregnant then.

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Because they go based on your lmp not the first month of your actual pregnancy that's what my ob-gyn told me

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You are in your ninth month until you are 40 weeks. If you go over 40 weeks, you would be considered to be in your 10th month, but you won’t go to 44 weeks, so you’d never complete 10 months. The most you can be is 9.5 months pregnant if you go to 42 weeks.

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It is ten individual four week months. But it is 9 full months since there are more than 28 days in each calendar month

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Thanks everyone for the insight but I’m so ready so I guess I’m using anything I can to want to go in labor.

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Ion know y’all cause it already seem like I been pregnant a year so at 36 weeks I’m ready& hope she is.. lbvs

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