WEEK
16
Babycenter.com must have taken notice of my previous complaints about imprecise fruit-based measurements. This week they say that the baby is "about the size of an avocado." At first I was confused, because I thought that an avocado was smaller than a softball, meaning we had actually lost ground.
But then I looked up wikipedia's avocado article, which says that an avocado can be 7-20 cm long, and can weigh anywhere from 100g to 1000g. Very clever, babycenter. They picked a fruit that can cover the baby's development for the next 2 months. Very clever, indeed.
I think babycenter.com has some sort of Avocado Agenda. This week's article discusses how to manage weight gain (you should gain 12-14 pounds this trimester). If you aren't gaining enough, they recommend that you "Add avocados to a lunchtime salad (they're nutrient-rich and full of "good" fat.)" Why the sudden preoccupation with avocados?
Perhaps they have constructed their fruit-meter carefully, so that each fruit reminds you of something you are supposed to eat or do to maintain proper health and development. Or perhaps they are funded entirely by the corrupt avocado lobby (called "Big Guac" in certain circles). I think it's Big Guac.
1 comment:
Guac, right, forgot about that delicious and fatty food. We were going for nuts. Apparently Jen found a great pregnancy diet - no dairy. She was both gaining and loosing weight at the same time, amazing.
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