Why You Need to Care About Weekly Fetal Development
Posted on 10 10, 2006 under Predad by gregoryng | View Comments
Predads: consider this a warning. Yet another helpful hint from your friend, Noodad. You heard it here first. You need to care about weekly fetal development. Ok. Now tell your pregnant wife to step away from the computer. All clear?
Listen carefully guys: You don't really have to care about fetal development. You only need to pretend to care about weekly fetal development.
Inevitably, your pregnant wife, especially if it is her first
pregnancy, will be obsessed by those day by day fetal development
calendars. Some are disguised by pregnancy journals. Some are automated
websites that send daily emails announcing progress.
{mosnooad}Entries include: "Your baby has developed a lung." Or "Your fetus has grown their lips". Your pregnant wife may cry reading about it. Like how they get teary-eyed when they see Huggies commercials. It's all good. they are tears of joy. But if you aren't careful and don't pretend to drop a tear or two, you will be in for a world of hurt.
You see, your wife has a living, breathing, product of your love growing inside of them. They are obsessed with the development partially because they can't wait to get the thing out of them but mostly because they are so damn curious.
If you are like me, you don't really care. It doesn't mean you don't love your wife and unborn kid any less. It just means that you don't care. That's cool. But the fine line between being a responsible guy and being a chump is how you receive the information.
Your wife will want to share the daily news with you. She just wants you to receive the information. It's kind of like a Valentine's Day card. She puts a lot of thought into it. She finely tunes the message of love. When all along you are just wondering how much the Best Buy Gift card inside is worth. Out of respect and love for my wife, I make myself interested in the development. That's what you need to understand.
Now I say that you don't have to really care about it, Predads, but I am here to tell you that if you do actually listen, you will find that the info is pretty damn cool. For example, this week, the fetus inside my wife's body is 15 weeks old—and growing eyebrows. That's pretty cool, no?
So, in the end, the reason you have to care about fetal development is because your wife cares about it. And as long as she's the one pushing the watermelon out her pea-hole, you owe her that much.
