How Old Is My Baby???

you have to remember that days, weeks and months don't add up according to general math. There's generally 30 days or 4 weeks in a month, but 7 (#days per week) x 4 (#weeks per month)= 28, not 30 or 31 as in some months. So we get a few extra days every month and after two months you are closer to having a whole week giving us nearly 9 weeks for every two months, not 8 like you would get with regular math. Its all because of those couple extra days each month that makes the math not quite "correct".

Basically you are right with both answers. It the same stupid math we all had trouble with when we were pregnant (40 weeks = 9 months, not 10!) Remember we have 52 weeks in a year but yet if you take 4 weeks and multiply it by 12 (#of months in a year) you get 48. Where's the missing 4 weeks? In those few extra days we get each month.

I started going by months after my kids turned 4 months. Most people don't want to put all the effort into figuring out what x weeks is in months anyways.

Hope that wasn't too confusing.
Congrats on for your daughter!

Try to think of it this way....
If you were married on 12/27/2000, this year you would be married 8 years on the 27th, but in your NINTH year of marriage. You have reached the 8th year already. So, your daughter is 7 months old, but going into her 8th month. So if you are looking up developement...you are looking into what an eight month old will start doing....since she is in her eighth month of life. Hope that helps.....

The way I count it is 7 months old then the next month she is 8 months. L.

Ok from my calculations. She is 7 months on 12/27. heading into her 8th month.

She is exactly 1 year younger than my son :)
She completed 7 months on 12/27 if that helps.
J.

I would say your son is 7 months old on 12/27. Happy Belated!

I counted the weeks until my son was 12 weeks old. After that, I just went by months. I follow what babycenter.com says. My son is 6 months: Week 2. But I just tell people 6 months until he hits the next month mark. Or if it's close enough, I'll say X months next week.

I always made it really simple and only counted the months, even when she was only one and two months old. No one questioned it.