How old is your Yorkie? Really!! This shows they are older than you think!

[Yorkiedaze]

Ever since Jill Ann was born (September 4th 2011) I have been keeping up with her age week to week instead of month to month. Well with doing that by the week, she will turn 1 year on July 14th, and 13 months 3 weeks and 3 days by September 4th. Now I am wondering just how old "I" really am!

[chachi]

Mine are real old 8

[cindersellie]

There's 52 weeks in a year... did you miscount? I'm not getting how your weeks are off, even if you go week by week. I'm sort of scared, I really don't want to be older than I am!

[MandiesMom]

The misconception comes in when we automatically think One Month = 4 weeks. This is not the case. Except for February on a non-leap year year, all months are longer than 4 weeks. So, going by months versus weeks ends up getting confusing.

But as said above, One Year = 52 weeks. Just think, if you were counting your age in months, you would think that is 13 months a year @4 weeks per month. lol

I think this is sort of why parents of human and animal babies eventually transistion from giving the baby's age from weeks then months then years.

[Princes mom]

Very interesting!

[cindersellie]

Thank god I'm not any older! Thanks for clearing that up for me!!

[katienme2002]

Ohhh..Im sooo confused..lol

[Bentleysmom1985]

Mine is 13 weeks but if I go by his birthday he would be 3 months. So he's older if I count in weeks :-P

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

The misconception comes in when we automatically think One Month = 4 weeks. This is not the case. Except for February on a non-leap year year, all months are longer than 4 weeks. So, going by months versus weeks ends up getting confusing.

But as said above, One Year = 52 weeks. Just think, if you were counting your age in months, you would think that is 13 months a year @4 weeks per month. lol

I think this is sort of why parents of human and animal babies eventually transistion from giving the baby's age from weeks then months then years.

And then add in the lunar calendar! LOL But your explanation is pretty good. My dad told me a story once when I was a kid. He said his co worker asked him why we celebrated Chinese New year on a different day every year. My dad said we don't. Actually we celebrate it on the exact same day every year. It's the Roman calendar that celebrates it on a different day every year! A [lunar] month is 28 days.

[Draco]

This makes wonder when do you guys substitute the month as the age instead of weeks?
Draco is 20wks but won't be 5months until the end of June. I feel like it's time I just go by months. I feel like after 20wks, it's kinda like when someone tells you their baby is 30 months old. haha I've actually asked the person why say 30months instead of 2 1/2yrs and they just said they didn't think of their child as that old, and wanted to keep them a baby lol.

[Bentleysmom1985]

Originally Posted by Draco

This makes wonder when do you guys substitute the month as the age instead of weeks?
Draco is 20wks but won't be 5months until the end of June. I feel like it's time I just go by months. I feel like after 20wks, it's kinda like when someone tells you their baby is 30 months old. haha I've actually asked the person why say 30months instead of 2 1/2yrs and they just said they didn't think of their child as that old, and wanted to keep them a baby lol.

Yes. People who keep counting in months do it because they dont want their babies to grow lol .... I think after 16 weeks, I'll stop counting in weeks.

[Fritz n Sophie]

This all hurts my brain.

[MandiesMom]

Going from weeks to months is the $64,000 question

I think I quit counting Mandie's weeks when she hit 6 months because I asked the vet about spaying at 6 months and what I should go by..weeks or months. He said months.

[capt_noonie]

That's true. Sometimes I ask how old a baby or pup is and I get the weeks instead of months, and I have to stand there with a dumb look on my face for a few seconds to do the math. LOL

It's worse when you ask how old their dog is, and they are like, Uh I dunno, like a year or so? omg you don't keep track? That's kinda sad.