Fruit comparisons make me giggle!

Re: Fruit comparisons make me giggle!

• aah1013 member

  June 2015

  Yeah, I totally don't understand where they come up with them. Some make no sense at all.

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• edavis926 member

  June 2015

  Haha I know right? We are using the fruits in our week pictures and wanted to pick something other than the pomegranate but then I realized we'd run out of larger fruits! Must just be a weight thing now.

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• DeeGreer member

  June 2015

  Right...last week was papaya this week is grapefruit. I've seen some huge grapefruit at the farmers market but never one bigger than a papaya.

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• aah1013 member

  June 2015

  This one might give a better estimate:
  https://www.thebump.com/a/how-big-is-baby-dad-to-be-edition

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• McRad member

  June 2015

  @aah1013 I think I like the dads version better! Thanks for sharing that!

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• beckles112 member

  June 2015

  Before we knew we were having a boy, I would call him by the fruit/veggie comparison. My favorite one was onion. Haha

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• MommyPhoenix member

  June 2015

  Fruit/veg can be so different in size, the comparisons are funny! I like the comparisons on Pregnant Chicken better since they compare to fixed-sized objects: Last week at 21 wks, size of the world's largest gummy bear!...mmmm...gummy bears...This week, lil' man is the length of a Barbie doll.

   

      

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• BabyOIsComing member

  June 2015

  I also use the Ovia app. Their comparisons are even more bizarre! Bok choy, Belgian endive... where do they come up with this stuff??

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• anorthro member

  June 2015

  Yeah, according to The Bump, this baby is basically a 1 foot diameter grapefruit.  That's one hell of a grapefruit.

  
  
  

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• xlipservicex member

  June 2015

  I have two apps, the ovia and this one. Ovia had pomegranate weeks ago lol.

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• laceyjaep member

  June 2015

  I thought the same thing when I saw the pomegranate last week! Haha!

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• leighann1 member

  June 2015

  Haha! Yep, a mango is 19 weeks here and 23 weeks on Baby Center. Kind of a crapshoot I think

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• kaza512 member

  June 2015

  There was actually a Wanda Sykes stand up routine where she jokes about how Americans can't handle getting medical diagnosis in actual sizes and measurements and that we need to use fruits to fully understand.  She talks about doc discovering a cyst that is 10cm and the pt. looks blank and not concerned, so the doc says.. "Its the size of a grapefruit!!"t and then the pt. flips out.  I thought of these baby fruit comparisons when I watched this again.

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• ellasnow member

  June 2015

  I was just thinking about this too! Literally yesturday!! I thought...how can u go from a bannana to a pomegranate..are we measuring fruit that is unpeeled and flattened?? So so funny...i started to just look at the size measurements and not the fruit. Except everytime i look at the fruit it looks soooo good and i want to eat it!

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• AshleeM7784 member

  June 2015

  It gets really scary at the end when your baby is the size of a jackfruit! The thought of the enormous spiky fruit coming out of your body is terrifying!

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