I’ve mentioned before that we have no clear idea of how far along we are. If you go by my last menstrual period – August 22 – I’m 9 weeks and 6 days. Thanks to hypothyroidism, that is a completely unreliable date to go by. If I go by when about my last period was supposed to be – September 24 – I’m 5 weeks today. That would make much more sense. Well, in the backwards way they count pregnancy.

How does it make any sense at all to count by last period? Not everyone has that “perfect” 28 day cycle, so wouldn’t those of us with extra long cycles be no where near as far along as those with them? How could they count me at 5 weeks, when someone with a 28 day cycle would be at 4? I assume our children don’t begin growing before they’re even fertilized, so why count by beginning of last period? That’s like saying an foot is 12 inches only when it’s not 42.