From the moment the gynae or whoever is confirming your pregnancy says you are so many weeks pregnant, whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the universe shifts and for about two years, you stop measuring time like a normal human being. Other than hours and minutes (which drag like snail), your other most used unit of time is weeks.
You look for all kinds of information and all of it is in weeks. Everyone who has a better clue about your baby's development is using weeks and so weeks it is. The thing is, baby-building is action-packed, one has to take stock almost weekly even after the baby is born. The world around you doesn’t know and frankly doesn’t care and will wonder why you’ll say you are 14 weeks pregnant and not three or four months depending on whether you like rounding off upwards or downwards. Of course everyone will have a good laugh and label you a pretentious nut when you say your baby is eight weeks old instead of two months. For the sake of everyone and so that the tired ill informed jokes about mummy-time stop, I will explain.
At 14 weeks, a lemon sized being is urinating and making faces and sucking their thumb inside you and you are hungry all the time and craving for weird things. Two weeks ago, you were dying of nausea and the baby still kind of resembled an alien. At 12 weeks, the baby’s head was just getting into proportion. So saying one is three months would be ignoring all the milestones achieved and changes that have happened in fourteen days and saying four months will not be accurate by the same measure. Use the same argument for after the birth of the baby. When a mum says eight weeks old, she means next week is vaccination day I mustn’t forget and I must prepare psychologically for inexplicable colic and bad temperament from baby. I do not think that at that time in her life she cares whether you think her strange and comic for counting in weeks.
The good news is things begin getting back to normal after 6 months. The doctors begin using months.You notice that even the information you get is titled 'Your 7 month old; week 2'. As the baby grows, so do you. You become a more confident parent and do not need the assurance from publications and other people that you are doing this parenting thing right. By 18 months you are quite 'cured' (if you push it, 2 years).
In summary, everybody counts using units that measure what is significant in their circumstance. A Kenya Shilling millionaire and a Sterling Pound millionaire do not count their money the same way. Time for a sprinter and marathoner is different. Time for new parents cannot be measured same as everyone else’s. Understood?
You look for all kinds of information and all of it is in weeks. Everyone who has a better clue about your baby's development is using weeks and so weeks it is. The thing is, baby-building is action-packed, one has to take stock almost weekly even after the baby is born. The world around you doesn’t know and frankly doesn’t care and will wonder why you’ll say you are 14 weeks pregnant and not three or four months depending on whether you like rounding off upwards or downwards. Of course everyone will have a good laugh and label you a pretentious nut when you say your baby is eight weeks old instead of two months. For the sake of everyone and so that the tired ill informed jokes about mummy-time stop, I will explain.
At 14 weeks, a lemon sized being is urinating and making faces and sucking their thumb inside you and you are hungry all the time and craving for weird things. Two weeks ago, you were dying of nausea and the baby still kind of resembled an alien. At 12 weeks, the baby’s head was just getting into proportion. So saying one is three months would be ignoring all the milestones achieved and changes that have happened in fourteen days and saying four months will not be accurate by the same measure. Use the same argument for after the birth of the baby. When a mum says eight weeks old, she means next week is vaccination day I mustn’t forget and I must prepare psychologically for inexplicable colic and bad temperament from baby. I do not think that at that time in her life she cares whether you think her strange and comic for counting in weeks.
The good news is things begin getting back to normal after 6 months. The doctors begin using months.You notice that even the information you get is titled 'Your 7 month old; week 2'. As the baby grows, so do you. You become a more confident parent and do not need the assurance from publications and other people that you are doing this parenting thing right. By 18 months you are quite 'cured' (if you push it, 2 years).
In summary, everybody counts using units that measure what is significant in their circumstance. A Kenya Shilling millionaire and a Sterling Pound millionaire do not count their money the same way. Time for a sprinter and marathoner is different. Time for new parents cannot be measured same as everyone else’s. Understood?