baby as food
When I was 6 weeks pregnant, last week, my zygote was the size of a chickpea. Before that a sesame seed and then a lentil bean.
My almost two year old is the size of a good Thanksgiving turkey.
7 weeks pregnant
Now a raspberry.
When I was 6 weeks pregnant, last week, my zygote was the size of a chickpea. Before that a sesame seed and then a lentil bean.
My almost two year old is the size of a good Thanksgiving turkey.
7 weeks pregnant
Now a raspberry.
9 weeks.
Almost the size of a grape.
Though she's barely the size of a kumquat just an inch or so long and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce, she's completed the most critical portion of her development.
Can't quite remember the last time I saw a kumquat. Not quite sure I even know what a kumquat is. Kumquat. It sounds dirty.
Your fig-sized baby is now fully formed, measuring 1 1/2 inches long and weighing a quarter of an ounce.
Your baby's hit the 2-inch mark (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce.
At 4 1/2 inches long (head to bottom) and 3 1/2 ounces, your baby is about the size of an avocado.
Head to bottom, your baby is approximately 5 1/2 inches long (about the length of a large sweet potato), and she weighs almost 7 ounces.
Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces, and he measures 6 inches, head to bottom about the length of a small zucchini.
Your baby is more than 11 inches long and weighs just over a pound (about as much as a large mango).
Your baby's growing steadily, gaining about a quarter of a pound since last week.
Since she's almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), that makes for a pretty lean figure, but her body's filling out proportionally.
Head to heels, your baby now measures about 13 1/2 inches. His weight a pound and a half isn't much more than an average rutabaga, but he's beginning to exchange his long, lean look for a more rounded one.
Your baby now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber), from head to heel.
By this week, By this week, your baby weighs two and a quarter pounds (like a Chinese cabbage) and measures 14.8 inches from the top of her head to her heels.
Your baby's about 15.7 inches long now, and she weighs almost 3 pounds (like a head of cabbage).
Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long.
Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that he's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds (pick up a honeydew).
Your baby has really plumped up. She weighs about 6.8 pounds and she's over 19 1/2 inches long (like a leek).
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