May 31, 2011

Double Digits Baby!

We've reached 10 weeks already! Whewwwwwwwwwwwww that was hard work, well not really.  Little baby Castro has been hard at work since day 1! He is now considered a fetus! How exciting. His nickname now is Fetie, short for Fetus :)

He also lost his tail! Can you imagine that we all had tails at one point? How cool would it be to have a tail? I think if I had a tail right now, I would use it to hold an ice cream cone while I typed away.  

According to WebMD, the baby looks a little like a medium sized shrimp, measuring 1.25 to 1.68 inches from crown to rump, and weighing a little less than two-tenths of an ounce.

Every Monday, I get emails in my inbox about how the baby is doing and his size.  Every week it's been a fruit, ranging from a grape to this week's shrimp.  Honestly, it kinda bothers me and I told Nelson this and he thinks it's pretty funny but I was not trying to be funny, just thinking rationally.  One week (in a previous post) they mentioned that he was a size of grape.  Guess what fruit I didn't want to eat or think about eating that week? Grapes! Grapes also have that gooey consistency that you would find in your body.  I understand what all these websites are doing though. They want to give you an idea of what size the baby is inside of you, but couldn't they find more of a clever way to describe it?  Like for example, instead of using a shrimp this week, can you say the size of a large paper clip? and also include the inches? Or how about a picture of a rules with the size highlighted? Just an idea!

Here are some examples of the fruits that they use to describe the growing being inside...

Poppy seed (ok I can handle that)

apple seed  - not a food that you would eat so I'm ok with this too
 

 Week 6 - pea or lentil
 Guess who LOVES lentils - this pregnant chic!
 
 Blueberries! Really? Especially this time of year while they are in season? 

 I'm not a raspberry fan so it's ok with me :)

 Week 9 - Grapes. I love grapes!
 
Week 10 - Cumquat according to another site.  This week according to Webmd, I have a shrimp! 


The list goes on and on and you can imagine what types of fruit they have towards week 40! WATERMELON!!! Wow I can't imagine how that's gonna fit inside there.  Soon enough we will be able to see!

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