Baby is 16 weeks (4 months) as of yesterday. Wow. We're almost halfway through this pregnancy thing.
According to our Babycenter email - Baby is roughly the size of an avocado and is growing toenails, among other things. The first thing I thought when I read that was, "Getting toenails is the first step to pedicures - YAY!" (If Baby is a girl, that is - not that boys don't get pedicures, but they don't usually talk about it).
The second thing I thought was "what size avocado?" Out of pure coincidence, we made guacamole last night - yeah, I guess that's a little sick in retrospect but take heart in knowing that it wasn't planned. Of course, now we might actually try to work whatever produce item Baby is currently the size of into our menu. I kind of think that would be funny. Anyway - we used 5 avocadoes and they were all such different sizes!
So - back to this idea of Baby being the size of produce - Babycenter has this slideshow that compares Baby's development every week to a 'common' produce item - to help give people a better idea of how big their baby is getting. (As if a giant belly wasn't enough of an idea)...
They have everything from a sesame seed to a pumpkin. That's right - a pumpkin.
The key to note here is that the growing baby is like this produce item in some way, usually weight or length. Otherwise, some of these don't make sense - like an ear of corn at week 24? I can hear it now "What? My baby is like an ear of corn right now? NO WONDER I'm uncomfortable!"
According to our Babycenter email - Baby is roughly the size of an avocado and is growing toenails, among other things. The first thing I thought when I read that was, "Getting toenails is the first step to pedicures - YAY!" (If Baby is a girl, that is - not that boys don't get pedicures, but they don't usually talk about it).
The second thing I thought was "what size avocado?" Out of pure coincidence, we made guacamole last night - yeah, I guess that's a little sick in retrospect but take heart in knowing that it wasn't planned. Of course, now we might actually try to work whatever produce item Baby is currently the size of into our menu. I kind of think that would be funny. Anyway - we used 5 avocadoes and they were all such different sizes!
So - back to this idea of Baby being the size of produce - Babycenter has this slideshow that compares Baby's development every week to a 'common' produce item - to help give people a better idea of how big their baby is getting. (As if a giant belly wasn't enough of an idea)...
They have everything from a sesame seed to a pumpkin. That's right - a pumpkin.
The key to note here is that the growing baby is like this produce item in some way, usually weight or length. Otherwise, some of these don't make sense - like an ear of corn at week 24? I can hear it now "What? My baby is like an ear of corn right now? NO WONDER I'm uncomfortable!"
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