Okay – what is with the world’s fetish with the babies-as-food thing? This is even worse than the baby shower Cake Wrecks because now, actual humans are involved. Seriously, this makes me want to stop sharing those food analogies the sites I read use to describe my baby’s growing size. Baby Lump is getting too big to be compared to single servings of food anyway, unless I’m planning on chowing down on a whole meatloaf or something. Have a look, and see what I mean ….
My friend, Yianni is right – Martha should go back to jail for this one. Those poor babies. These are the cruelest baby costumes ever! There’s no way Baby Lump’s first Halloween will be spent as a lemon meringue pie or a boiled and plated lobster. That apple pie baby looks like she’s in a food coma. No wonder “Caesar salad baby” doesn’t want to cooperate …
In weekly updates, Baby Lump now weighs two full pounds and measures about 14 inches long (as long as he/she isn’t gearing up to be a Paul Bunyan-type baby). He/she has also started working on that birthday hairdo and should be growing some cute little baby fuzz by now.
According to many Web sites, this week marks the last week in my second trimester, so apparently I’m about two-thirds of the way there. Third trimester, here I come!
First of all, I’m glad to see some of you are really getting into the birth statsbetting guessing facebook group. It’s been fun to track all of your (sometimes quirky) guesses. And while I doubt I’m going to give birth to a manbearpig (I guess this is what I get for the pambearpig nickname), a demigod or Paul Bunyan, I can see where you’re all coming from. Given that James was almost 11 pounds at birth, I suppose it’s not that far-fetched
Although it may not take five storks to drop off Baby Lump at my doorstep, he/she has done some growing in the past week. Little lump should now measure about 13 1/2 inches in length and weight approximately 1 1/2 pounds.
What’s even more intriguing is that his/her eyelids are no longer fused shut (not that Baby Lump can see anything in the darkness of the womb, anyway), and his/her lungs are now capable of breathing air! This means that although Baby Lump is taking in tiny breaths of fluid in the womb, he/she could now breathe outside the womb without medical assistance.
You may have noticed from my baby bump photos that I’ve decided to start taking pictures from a full-body perspective. Based on the fact that some of you have been questioning whether I’m actually taking photos of my knee and not my belly, I figured it was time for a change. I think you will all get a better idea of how big Baby Lump is getting from this perspective.
Maybe you’ll all also agree that Baby Lump is definitely not Paul Bunyan material.
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