The fruit you actually push out

Trek3 · January 2015

So, me and DH were comparing baby's head to various fruits. It is pretty darn close to a nice-sized grapefruit.

Pushing out a watermelon sounds pretty scary, pushing out a grapefruit (or stack of grapefruits :P) sounds much better!

LaBellaVida · January 2015

A grapefruit? I would think it would be like a small cantaloupe. I think a grapefruit would be too small.

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BackseatDriver · January 2015

The shoulders were NBD. Totally the head!

Lola918 · January 2015

I think grapefruit is right - 10cm diameter is about that...

marvan5 · January 2015

Definitely depends on the grapefruit! I've seen some as small as a medium orange or large as a small cantelope. But yeah watermelon is ridiculous!

YaMrWhite · January 2015

My kids head is in the 5th percentile. Shoulders were worse for me.

4littlebears · January 2015

I bought a bag of grapefruits from costco. They were pretty large grapefruit. My son's head is probably a similar size. His was 14 inches. No one would be able to push out an actually watermelon, could you imagine!? haha

southernyankeegirl · January 2015

I am on board with cantaloupe. He's got a big melon head.

shannjohnston · January 2015

It hurts even with an epidural.
DS had/has a crazy big head. I remember pushing really hard, and nothing was progressing. This LO has a "normal" head. I still felt the 'ring of fire', but it was nothing like before. Definitely more of a large navel orange as opposed to a grapefruit.

stephchris0321 · January 2015

Ok, I just ate a grapefruit about 15 minutes ago. LOL. I would compare DS to the size of a cantaloupe when he was born.

Maebb · January 2015

I am currently a watermelon, and next week is Jackfruit. Either one of those would be terrifying.

MahriM23 · January 2015

Someone should make a baby out of fruit and post a picture..I'm thinking a grapefruit for the head and then maybe a small cucumber underneath that to represent the shoulders....

tanya_erin · January 2015

My first baby had a head circumference that put him at 97th percentile. So yah. I tore. And the head was for SURE the worst. Everything else sort of slides out after that!!

Roxycc55 · January 2015

tanya_erin said:
My first baby had a head circumference that put him at 97th percentile. So yah. I tore. And the head was for SURE the worst. Everything else sort of slides out after that!!

My baby's head has been measuring over 99th percentile consistently. I have been dreading this. More the recovery than anything. What degree was your tear?

tanya_erin · January 2015

Roxycc55 said:

tanya_erin said:
My first baby had a head circumference that put him at 97th percentile. So yah. I tore. And the head was for SURE the worst. Everything else sort of slides out after that!!
My baby's head has been measuring over 99th percentile consistently. I have been dreading this. More the recovery than anything. What degree was your tear?

I think it was 2nd degree, but I'm not sure. It was 7 years ago. I've had two more, both with 1st and 2nd degree tearing. Recovery was "ok". Not super bad...

csjsmom · January 2015

Still waiting to have #3. But with my second (a VBAC) after he came out my midwife said "now you need to deliver the placenta" and I must have given her a look of terror because the next thing she said was "don't worry, there are no bones". Hopefully this ones head isn't too big!

atrinh11 · January 2015

tanya_erin said:

My first baby had a head circumference that put him at 97th percentile. So yah. I tore. And the head was for SURE the worst. Everything else sort of slides out after that!!

This exactly for my first. He was also in a really weird position and quite stuck for quite a while.

With my second that I just had, her head was smaller, so her shoulders did actually take a second, which caught me by surprise. With my son, once his head was out, the rest of him just came right out.

Roxycc55 · January 2015

tanya_erin said:

Roxycc55 said:

tanya_erin said:
My first baby had a head circumference that put him at 97th percentile. So yah. I tore. And the head was for SURE the worst. Everything else sort of slides out after that!!
My baby's head has been measuring over 99th percentile consistently. I have been dreading this. More the recovery than anything. What degree was your tear?
I think it was 2nd degree, but I'm not sure. It was 7 years ago. I've had two more, both with 1st and 2nd degree tearing. Recovery was "ok". Not super bad...

Thanks! That makes me feel a little better. I think I could handle 2nd degree... Hopefully. Haha

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