conception date? count back 9 months

[ProMinx]

wow...someone is REALLY bored, but for the record...my parents must have bumped uglies back in june/july...

thanks for the mental image

[coleslaw]

Ohh!! It's all clear to me now!! I finally know what my dad gave to my mom for Valentine's Day in 1979!!

[chrissy]

Ummm.... no

40 weeks kids. 40 weeks. Try again.

[Jenny]

chrissy, (took me 3 tries to type that instead of crabbie. It's even worse on the phone, huh? lol), do you know why there is a discrepancy? I mean, yeah, I always say 9 months, but I know it is 40 weeks, which is 10 months... Do you know why it is 9 months instead of 10 months? Just cause it SOUNDS much shorter? lol

[chrissy]

Actually, it is 10 months. When a woman is preggered, you start counting weeks from the last period. So, if a woman has her period on the 2nd week of March, ovulation happens (avg 10-14 days later), and she becomes preggered, she will be due mid December. 9 months is usually what you hear because most don't go back to the last period. They count from the first missed period. But by then, you are normally 2-3 weeks preggered.

[coleslaw]

52/12 = 4 1/3 weeks per month.

Therefore, 9 months = 39 weeks on average.

[Jenny]

Originally posted by chrissy
Actually, it is 10 months. When a woman is preggered, you start counting weeks from the last period. So, if a woman has her period on the 2nd week of March, ovulation happens (avg 10-14 days later), and she becomes preggered, she will be due mid December. 9 months is usually what you hear because most don't go back to the last period. They count from the first missed period. But by then, you are normally 2-3 weeks preggered.

Oooooh yeah....I hadn't thought of that!

[ProMinx]

Assume they danced the horizontal tango on V-day and you are born 9 months later (November 15). That is a total of 289 days, which...if divided by 7 days/week gives you 41.29 weeks. Therefore both 9 months and 40 weeks is correct, but 40 weeks is actually just a bit shorter than 9 months. Come on women...why does a guy have to explain this?

ProMinx

ps - I've been on the phone for a while, so please excuse me if someone posted an explanation already...

[coleslaw]

...and I was born on November 7th!

AAHHHHH!!

[chrissy]

Where is OBBY?

OBBY?????????

[oblongmelon]

I'm here...inbetween reading study material for my NET + exam..blech..No time to do any good posts for G.G.D..As soon as my classes are done on the 17th I'll be back up full force

[theorangeone]

my oldest sister was a honeymoon baby, two of my sisters and me were conceived on my parents anniversary, and my other two siblings (brother and sister) were conceived on christmas.

[attgig]

april myself...hmmmm
dunno y they decided to do it late summer early fall, but eh, I'm here...that's all I need to know

'79, eh coleslaw???
same here
anyone else here 22?...oh wait, you're birthday's in nov....you're still 21... man, I'm getting older quicker than you are

[ArkiStan]

HAHA this is funny!! My B-day is in late October. Count back 9 months and Boom!! You have mid January which contain both my parents' birthdays!!! I guess they saved some cash with birthday presents that year.

[The Happy Squirrel]

i guess my parents have a good alibi for the horible halloween massascare in 1979

[welfareloser]

okay i was born in august, which is the most common month in which to be born in this country. that means that there is more nasty-doins in november than any other month.

theories, anyone? mine is that that is when it gets colder, and people go to bed a bit earlier, and snuggle up under the blankets... i can personally vouch for the fact that sex in st louis in the summer without ac is miiiiighty uncomfortable (although i can't rightly say that it slowed me down any)