If you have been pregnant or are pregnant now, you probably know that BabyCenter.com sends you weekly emails telling you about the state of your unborn child. You also know that included in this “state of baby” email is a comparison regarding his/her growth. Sometimes this can be helpful and you can picture the size of your baby right away. Par example, “This week your baby is about the size of a lentil bean.” Yes! I got it! I know exactly what a lentil bean looks like:

Your baby at six weeks. And, yes, thank you for the quarter comparison…just in case you didn’t know the size of a lentil bean.

Or, a lime at twelve weeks along:

After twelve weeks, it gets a little tricky to compare growing baby to a vegetable or fruit. For example, the avocado is the item of comparison for 16 weeks. As a friend of mine asked, “Is it a smaller, organic avocado or a medium sized avocado or the biggest avocado I’ve ever seen?” I just don’t know.

Wow! A spaghetti squash! That is pretty big at 22 weeks, right! But, then, at 24 weeks, your baby is demoted to an ear of corn:

It seems odd, doesn’t it? Now my baby is long and thin. I didn’t feel long and thin at 22 weeks…

So, you ask, how far along am I now? 28 weeks. What is my veggie comparison? A Chinese Cabbage.

I have to say that this one is dead on. I feel this much bigger than a quarter….MUCH bigger.

Now I’m off to Richmond for the “smocked outfit smackdown” I discussed yesterday. If you go, find me! I’ll be the pregnant lady whose belly looks juuuusssst about the size of a Chinese Cabbage.

Adrianne