This post is first among others that will follow hence, Part 1. These posts will attempt to show some realistic differences between what is suggested by people/ websites etc and what actually takes place in real life. All these are real experiences of real people and not fiction. I am just an informed narrator!!!
Every suggestion is followed by the real life situation:
Suggestion 1 (similar references are used by about 80% of websites on pregnancy)
'If you are about 18 weeks pregnant, your baby is now about the size of a grapefruit'
Real life
My friend who was reading this on the net was exactly in her 18th week at that time. She immediately called me up all flustered and bothered as she was concerned how her baby that was supposed to be the size of a 'tomato' in the 16th week could go back to the size of a grape in the 18th!!!
As you can observe in the pictures that grapes and grapefruit are as different as ants and elephants (though both have ants/ grape in them)!! That reference to a foreign fruit on that website made my friend assume that her baby had suddenly reduced in size to a mere grape (a fruit commonly available in India and one she is very familiar with)!!
Even more confusing are references to potatoes...If some website says 'now your baby is about the size of a medium sized potato' and like me you go and check out the potatoes in your kitchen basket - you'll be spending quite some time pondering over which one could be labelled 'medium sized'...I literally lined up all the potatoes on the table in increasing order of size to ascertain 'medium sized'...but soon came back to my senses.... as some other kitchen basket may have another assortment of sizes...my own kitchen basket on another day would have different sized potatoes.....what about all the potatoes in the supermarket then- or all the potatoes of the world?? So, very unlike me, I quit the quest for the medium sized potato midway.
Thus, it is my sincere request that this 'tomato'; 'potato', 'mango' kind of references to help pregnant women visualize their babies' sizes must be replaced by something more logical...
And, having genetically modified extra large fruits and vegetables in the market doesn't help at all!!!!!!!
Every suggestion is followed by the real life situation:
Suggestion 1 (similar references are used by about 80% of websites on pregnancy)
'If you are about 18 weeks pregnant, your baby is now about the size of a grapefruit'
Real life
My friend who was reading this on the net was exactly in her 18th week at that time. She immediately called me up all flustered and bothered as she was concerned how her baby that was supposed to be the size of a 'tomato' in the 16th week could go back to the size of a grape in the 18th!!!
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grapefruit |
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As you can observe in the pictures that grapes and grapefruit are as different as ants and elephants (though both have ants/ grape in them)!! That reference to a foreign fruit on that website made my friend assume that her baby had suddenly reduced in size to a mere grape (a fruit commonly available in India and one she is very familiar with)!!
Even more confusing are references to potatoes...If some website says 'now your baby is about the size of a medium sized potato' and like me you go and check out the potatoes in your kitchen basket - you'll be spending quite some time pondering over which one could be labelled 'medium sized'...I literally lined up all the potatoes on the table in increasing order of size to ascertain 'medium sized'...but soon came back to my senses.... as some other kitchen basket may have another assortment of sizes...my own kitchen basket on another day would have different sized potatoes.....what about all the potatoes in the supermarket then- or all the potatoes of the world?? So, very unlike me, I quit the quest for the medium sized potato midway.
Thus, it is my sincere request that this 'tomato'; 'potato', 'mango' kind of references to help pregnant women visualize their babies' sizes must be replaced by something more logical...
And, having genetically modified extra large fruits and vegetables in the market doesn't help at all!!!!!!!
http://www.babycenter.com/slideshow-baby-size
ReplyDeleteplease see this link to know week by week size of your baby in comparison with that of popular fruits and vegetables!!! in the course of this comparative analysis, you'll also learn the names of some new fruits that you may never get to taste in real life!!! the good thing is that they have given a coin as a constant scale in every pic which gives us an approximation of the actual size...