This may be a silly question, but I'm finding mixed answers online. I am 6 weeks 1 days pregnant but what week am I IN? Like, 6 weeks have already passed so I feel like I should be IN my 7th week, but my pregnancy apps are all saying different things. Some say I'm in week 6, others say week 7. I want to know if I have an apple seed or a sweet pea! lol
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I have no idea. I just know I'm 13w4d, and babycenter sent my 13 week email at the beginning of the week. How that answers your question, I'm not sure.
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I think you'd be in your 7th week, since if you start at the beginning you're in your 1st week. Then when you're in your 2nd week of being pregnant you're 1 week pregnant. (Never mind the fact that you're not pregnant at all during that time...)
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I would think of it the same way you think of years of age. I'm 32yrs8mos old. That makes me in my 32nd year, not my 33rd.
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Hmm, but that doesn't really work for the first year does it? Bah!
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@lilyofthewest: Actually, you are in your 33rd year, since you weren't considered 1 until a whole year had passed. Same as it's the 21st century but it's only the 2000's.
That being said, I don't think that's relevant. I think it is like age, in that you just say you're however many weeks and don't worry about what week you're in the middle of.
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@spaniellove: That's how I view it! But like @Torchwood: said, baby center says I'm in week 6 but What To Expect days week 7. Bah.
@lilyofthewest: See! Confusing right?
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@Torchwood: I just like to know so I can read about the development. My DH asks all the time how big it is and where we are and I don't want to give false information.
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@Mrs.Panda: FWIW, What To Expect has a note in their emails that they recently updated their numbering system because it was so confusing. I've found that as long as you know the difference between "___ weeks" and "Week ___" you'll be fine. And eventually there's not much difference between one week and the next.
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@Mrs.Panda: I just rely on the babycenter, and if something doesn't seem the same I figure out when they say I should be at the size babycenter says, and go with that. Not really sure that babycenter is right versus someone else, but I pretty much just picked one and went with it.
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@spaniellove: I will have to look into that! I didn't realize there was a disclaimer. I just like to read about it since I'm so early on and it's my first
@Torchwood: You're right I just need to pick one and go with it.
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@Mrs.Panda: @Torchwood: The fruit measurements are ridiculous anyway...at the beginning I tried listing the fruits from different sites and they were so different from each other. They'd have the same fruit/vegetable months apart!
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@spaniellove: I went from a lime last week to a peapod this week. How are those even a logical jump!?
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@Torchwood: Seriously! You're better off getting the measurements (can't remember which site has them) for each week.
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@spaniellove: I mostly rely on the emails for the info on what's developing this week. The fruits are more amusing than helpful. :y But they do provide measurements too.
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I would be saying I've completed 6 weeks and I'm in my 7th week.
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I go by saying I'm in week 6 right up to 6 weeks and 6 days then I'm in week 7 the next day. I have no patience though, I read weeks ahead and convince myself that there's a watermelon sized baby in there at 10 weeks.
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@Mrs.Panda: @spaniellove: Yeah, What to Expect just updated their app. I downloaded the new version and they finally match all the other apps/sites now. Their release notes even say "we now match what your doctor would say". Which is kind of annoying that they were saying anything different to begin with.
So I am 10w5d and now both their app and my other app say I am 10w5d, not that I am in week 11. I thought it was very confusing and misleading for WTE to do that!. WTE was consistently saying I was in the next week and giving me bigger baby sizes and further development of baby than it really was. It was rather disappointing when I started poking around other apps and realized I wasn't as far as I thought. Meaning I knew I was 10 weeks but thought baby was bigger. Then just as I'm getting mad at WTE, they release the new app with proper numbering!So the point of this ramble is that while you are in your 7th week, you haven't completed the 7th week so you're still 6 weeks or 6w1d specifically. If someone were to ask me Id say I was 10 weeks since I haven't completed the 10th week yet.
ETA: think of it like your age! I'm 32. I guess technically I'm in my 33rd year of life but I don't go around saying I'm 33. I'm 32 until I complete my 32nd year. -
@Torchwood: same. I hate the food comparisons. I can't eat a snap pea without thinking I'm eating my kid. MAKE IT STIP.
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Oh, and I recently got a free app that I love. It's called "pregnancy +" and the image in the App Store says "beautiful images" across be top. But it's a lot more than beautiful images! I like it a lot better than the other several apps I've tried. I barely look at WTE anymore.
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I have to be honest, at some point I stopped keeping up! So a few days ago when I read that there was a 13 1/2 inch baby in there I got out a tape measure and was shocked.
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