Counting the months

Someone please help me My twins were born on Oct.2. So I have been counting every 4 weeks as a month (like you do in pregnancy). Doing that, they will be 6 months old this Tuesday. But I when I got out the calendar and counted out the rest of the year, they will be "12 months" on Sept 2, but their 1st birthday is not until Oct 2. Am I doing something wrong? Have I fried all my brain cells already???!!!!

 

Most months have more than 28 days. Four weeks is 28 days. This is why I always told my dr I needed 13 pill packs in a year, not 12, because a year is 52 weeks, not 48.

 

My kids are ten wekks old today, but technically they are just over 2 months old and ten days.... I see what you mean, but like pp said, most months have more than 28 days!

 

I just went by date. My girls were born Jan. 27, 2007. On Feb 27, they were a month old. March 27, two months old. I never really counted the days. I know Technically when they were 3 mos. old - they were probably 3 mos. and 2 days etc. But I never really went by that. Too much work for this new Mommy.

 

I went by weeks until about 3 months old and then switched over to using the date for each month... just because I found it easier to say 3 1/2 months as opposed to 14 weeks.

 

Tomorrow my girls will be 13 weeks old which is also 3 months.

 

In the beginning i said they are so many weeks and it alwasy changed on Monday becuase they were born on a Monday. Once they were 3 months old i said months and that changed on the 23rd because they were born on the 23rd. make sense?

 

QUOTE(Leighann @ Mar 14 2008, 03:13 PM) [snapback]669398[/snapback]
I went by weeks until about 3 months old and then switched over to using the date for each month... just because I found it easier to say 3 1/2 months as opposed to 14 weeks.



:good: that's what I did!

 

QUOTE(kimj @ Mar 14 2008, 03:11 PM) [snapback]669390[/snapback]
I just went by date. My girls were born Jan. 27, 2007. On Feb 27, they were a month old. March 27, two months old. I never really counted the days. I know Technically when they were 3 mos. old - they were probably 3 mos. and 2 days etc. But I never really went by that. Too much work for this new Mommy.

Me too, and it was easy since my girls were born on the 1st.


QUOTE(Leighann @ Mar 14 2008, 03:13 PM) [snapback]669398[/snapback]
I went by weeks until about 3 months old and then switched over to using the date for each month... just because I found it easier to say 3 1/2 months as opposed to 14 weeks.

Ditto to that too!!

 

Same as PPs. I count the months based on the date they were born. They were born October 23rd, so they will be 5 months on March 23rd. My ped. and also the Lilypie tickers in everyone's signatures do it this way also. MUCH easier to keep track of !

 

Jennifer, my twins were born October 2 as well!
We stopped counting weeks at about 8 weeks (Maybe I was too tired to count that high?).

 

Well crap! Now I have to take it back to everyone I told, "Oh, they'll be six months old on Tuesday." So really they're only 5 mo and 1 week. Wow. Okay, thanks for clearing that up guys. that is kinda like when you're pregnant and you have to explain that really your pregnant for 10 months because that's 40 weeks, not 9 months, but really it is 9-----it's all so confusing. :icon_eek: