Lifetime -20 and the 13th floor

On Thursday Trogers will be 20 weeks. It's strange to think that in 20 weeks (really 18 weeks when you consider that 2 of those weeks was just waiting around for ovulation) Trogdor has grown arms, legs, a brain, kidneys, fingernails, a penis (other wise called 'that bit in between' by the sonographer), ears, eyes and the rest yet his 'life time' will only start to be counted once he exits the womb. But Spidermonkey and I have known him for going on 4 months. We've talked about him and to him. Our lives are already starting to change around him. It's like waiting for godot.

20 weeks is half way though. The average pregnancy lasts any where between 37 to 42 weeks with 40 weeks considered an average of the average. Which leads us to the greatest pregnancy myth of all time - the 9 month pregnancy. If some-one asked you 'how long is a month in weeks?' you'd say 'about 4 weeks', right? So, if a month is about 4 weeks and a pregnancy is about 40 weeks a woman is pregnant for about 10 months! The extra days that each month has does get you down closer to the traditional 9 month mark but no book on pregnancy actually counts calender months - most of them are in weeks with each 4 week increment being described as a month. As they get closer to the end of the pregnancy they start to have chapters like '9 Months and Beyond' because for some reason we don't talk about the mysterious 10th month. It's like the 13th floor - *scary whisper* there is no 13th floor!