how do you count???

How do you all count your months post op??? today I am 12 weeks out so to me 3 months but others seem to count on for example the 21st as i was operated on 11/21/11  so i am a bit confused as to what to say is my 3 month mark????   THanks for your help

A month is a month (about 30 days). My surgery was on 6/22, so 7/22 was my one month post op. 8/22 made 2 months post op, and so forth.

awesome thanks

 Hey thanks for asking.   I'm the same way counting 4 weeks as a month.  If we are talking a regular calendar month then I still have almost 7 weeks to try and reach the half way mark.

 
I was wondering that also...I think Jimbo brought it up....

At what point do you stop counting months?

Do you say 28 months or 2 years and 4 months......

frisco

This reminded me how we count our baby's age. For some it's "my baby is 12 weeks old" and others it's "my baby is 3 months".  It's weird because there is a difference in weeks to months. Some months have 5 weeks in them, others only have 4. Tatum was born on 30 October 2011, so technically she is 15 weeks, but when people ask I say "she's 3.5 months old".  I count for surgery date purposes the date of the month. The 3rd of the month is the date I count, no weeks counted. And, at this point, I just say a little over 2.5 years post-op rather than 32 months post-op.

This is what it made me think of too!  There are parents who keep counting months for  a loooong time.  "My son is 46 months old."  I'd just say he's almost four.    After the first year, I stopped using months to describe my kid's age. Now I say my daughter is just over 1 1/2 years old, son is 3 1/2.  No one wants to do the math to convert their age to years, plus no one (other than me and my spouse) really care to know the *exact* age of our children.

Congrats on your little one!   The first year is just an amazing ride, isn't it?