As some of you have deduced, I am with child. Well, my wife is with child. As any one that has a child knows, the time between discovering the pregnancy and the birth of the first child is very exciting and utterly terrifying. One minute your thinking, “How exciting a baby is coming, what joy it will bring to our lives!” The next minute it’s, “Oh God! What did I do? You can just have a baby like that? There is no class or anything? I mean, I had to take a 20 hour class to drive a car, but I can just make humans at will? There should be some laws against this.” The crazy mix of emotions is funny.
Like any soon-to-be first-time parent, I spent the first few weeks awake all night staring at the ceiling, unable to stop my mind. Hardly a morning went by where I wasn’t spraying partial digested food into a toilet bowl. My wife on the other hand didn’t get sick once. That’s not funny! I’m very emotional!
It wasn’t long before she made a run to the bookstore to purchase pregnancy books and she made sure to share things with me so I could be aware of what was going on with our zygote. Soon, I realized an odd trend with these books and their descriptions of the developing child: They all used food to describe the size of the baby. 
It started out as a seed and then it grew to a pea. One week it was a berry, the next it was a bean. A couple of weeks ago it was an avocado and now I believe we’re into heirloom tomato country. How great I thought. Finally, something someone without girly parts could relate to. Now I do have to admit that the system trends towards fruits and vegetables which I think is kind of unfair. I should be able to know when my child is as big as a filet mignon or a Chipotle Burrito.
Stay tuned for eggplant.
Tomato Photo: Harris Graber
Tagged with: Baby • Fruit • Organic Baby Food
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June 8th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Congrats! We just delivered child #2 yesterday. Our first girl. Baby Abigail joined her brother Ben yesterday, 6/7/8 at 5:14pm weighing a light 6 pounds 9 ounces at 18 1/2 inches long.
I’d give you all my knowledge, but I remember all the other Dad’s trying to tell me how it was going to be, etc and honestly everyone has their own experiences. Best of luck, the sleep deprivation is no where near what people try to make it seem, and the Mommy does do all the work, contrary to what they may think.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
A somewhat late second congrats! I was laughing out loud as I am in the exact same situation as you. Half way there and it still hasn’t quite fully hit me.
I think we were last at an avocado…. The strange thing is I’m never hungry after hearing about how big the baby is.
Might want to change the name of the blog to “Taking Out Cleveland” as I hear eating out is sometimes a bit hard with a little one.
Congrats again!