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Our baby as produce.
By Karen | August 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
19 weeks into this pregnancy and my torso has become a foreign landscape. Despite looking as if I have swallowed a melon, I still find the mommy industry’s practice of comparing one’s developing child to a piece of produce to be disconcerting. Each fruit or vegetable that our baby can be likened to in any given week gives me cause to boycott said foodstuff until our baby can no longer be compared to it. Here’s an example of the analogies that crop up in every newsletter, website, and iPod application that targets moms-to-be.
Pregnancy Tracker’s weekly size chart:
- No size comparison in Week 1: ovulation
- No size comparison in Week 2: implantation
- Poppyseed: 0.02″
- Poppyseed: 0.10″
- Sesame seed: 0.18″
- Grain of rice: 0.25″, 0.05 oz
- Blueberry: 0.53″, 0.07 oz
- Raspberry: 0.68″, 0.11 oz
- Grape: 0.93″, 0.35 oz
- Prune: 1.2″, 0.71 oz
- Fig: 1.7″, 1.06 oz
- Plum: 2.3″, 1.6 oz
- Peach: 3″, 2.3 oz
- Lemon: 3.5″, 3.9 oz
- Apple: 4.1″, 4.8 oz
- Avocado: 4.7″, 5.6 oz
- Turnip: 5.2″, 7.1 oz
- Sweet potato: 5.8″, 8.8 oz
- Mango: 6.2″, 9.5 oz
- Grapefruit: 6.8″, 13.4 oz
- Cantaloupe: 8.9″, 15.9 oz
- Spaghetti squash: 10.2″, 1.1 lbs
- Papaya: 11″, 1.2 lbs
- Ear of corn: 11.8″, 1.4 lbs
- Rutabaga: 12.6″, 1.7 lbs
- Eggplant: 13″, 1.9 lbs
- Head of cauliflower: 13.4″, 2.2 lbs
- Chinese cabbage: 13.8″, 2.5 lbs
- Butternut squash: 14.2″, 2.9 lbs
- Head of lettuce: 14.6″, 3.3 lbs
- Head of lettuce: 15.4″, 3.7 lbs
- Head of lettuce: 15.9″, 4.2 lbs
- Pineapple: 16.5″, 4.6 lbs
- Pineapple: 16.9″, 5.1 lbs
- Honeydew: 17.7″, 5.5 lbs
- Honeydew: 18.3″, 6 lbs
- Watermelon: 18.9″, 6.4 lbs
- Watermelon: 19.7″, 6.6 lbs
- Watermelon: 19.7″, 6.7 lbs
- Pumpkin: 19.7″, 6.8 lbs
September 5th, 2009 at 9:02 am
“pumpkin” is a good nickname for the baby. I remembered someone called you “poochie” . . . hahaha xoxo