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[Jane99]

Are Korean women pregnant for 10 months? Just wondering if anyone else has heard this. I was talking to my class (grade 6-ers) and they told me that the normal gestation period for Korean women is 10 months.

[Hank Scorpio]

[just because]

How does this work then. How is it 10 months. I know all about adding a year but now they are adding a month as well?????

[Hank Scorpio]

[just because]

makes sense I suppose. Still don't understand the age thing though. Sometimes I'm 2 years older and other times I'm one year older. Clear this up for me Hank.

[J.B. Clamence]

I believe that months of pregnancy are measured in groups of 28 days, so when you're pregnant, 1 month = 28 days (it keeps things more scientific, since months have varying numbers of days; I guess they like to be very exact about the days during pregnancy). So the ten month pregnancy is actually 10 periods of 28 days each, which for us is nine months. The time is the same, they just have a different way of dividing it.

[Bulsajo]

10 lunar months, yes; In other words the same as women all over the world they're just counting the months differently.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Yes. And their babies are born with fully developed motor control systems and an unquenchable thirst for liquor.

[tomato]

Maybe they count both endpoints.
Have you noticed that some businesses advertise that they are open 25 hours a day?
You would get 25 if you count from midnight to midnight and count both midnights.

The Spanish-speaking people count both endpoints, too.
A week is 8 days and a two-week period is 15 days.

[just because]

i think the hour thing is just to emphasize that they are open every hour of the day so you can't say you are open 24 if your competitor is open 25. Can't wait for the LG 30

[toomuchtime]

[Yesterday]

My ex-korean girlfriend explained all this to me -

All humans pregnancies are 40 weeks - in Western countries we look at our calendars and consider it 9 months - in korea they consider a lunar month 28 days and consider it 10 months - really it is the same pregnancy time - koreans are just still living in the lunar years - didn't you realise to us it is the year 2003 and to Koreans the year is 2547.

Now as for the baby being one year old at birth - (don't forget their pregnancy is considered 10 months - and they also know (medically) that the fathers sperm was stored for 2 months in the seminal vesicles before being released into the mother) being a male dominated society - confusciousm the baby is considered to have started being formed at this stage - add the 2 months onto the 10 month pregnancy - and REALLY the baby is 1 year old at birth....

hope you can make sense of this.... Only one thing still bothers me - why don't they also consider all the years the eggs were stored inside the mother - (which would have been from the birthtime of the mother) - well the only answer comes back to the thing about this being a male dominated society - ...

[Mr. Pink]

[Sucker]

The optimal "storage" time for sperm in humans is 3 days - concentrated without getting too sluggish.

Who says my science degree is useless?

[Kwangjuchicken]