Check out our stop-motion data vis announcing our newest project!

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95% confidence interval for arrival:

🦃 Thanksgiving – 🎄 Xmas 2025

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Collaborator: Keegan Leary (contributed 1 cell)

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You’ve probably seen the “baby is the size of a [insert food]” thing before.

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But, it’s surprisingly hard to do well. Some stuff that picked my brain:

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Timing is messy.

Pregnancy is counted from your last period, not from conception. So if you ovulate late (I did), the baby’s actual size might be behind what the apps say. I essentially had to recalibrate the size of baby to a new "fake" gestational age for it to be realistic. 

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(That’s why the sizing might look “off” if you’re paying close attention.)

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Size is about area, not just length.

I picked consistently round-ish objects because our brains interpret volume better when shapes feel consistent. A long string bean might technically be “bigger,” but it doesn’t feel like real growth unless the whole shape scales, too.

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Stop-motion is harder than it looks.

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I had to hold my breath between every frame to not breathe on the papers. 

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I used tweezers to move the papers. Tiny things move if you blink at them wrong.

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Lighting is a diva. It’s amazing how, where photons do or don’t hit, will ruin the visual flow of frames.

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We ended up in Keegan’s studio, blacked out as much natural light as possible, and used his artificial studio lights. Benefits of having a YouTuber husband hehe.

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This baby's already an overachiever

I had a whopping 17.1% fetal fraction (96th percentile) at 10-11 weeks…this lil guy already has endurance-athlete vascular efficiency 😅

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Fetal fraction = percent of DNA in my blood that belongs to baby. 

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A baby’s DNA ends up in mom’s bloodstream as their placenta grows and sheds cells.

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To the unsung journeys

We're extremely grateful to be blessed with a painless fertility & pregnancy journey thus far, but we know not everyone's path looks like ours.

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Here's to those navigating complicated fertility journeys, uncertainty, or loss. Your physical and emotional labor often goes unrecognized, and your victories—however they're defined—deserve just as much celebration. Your journey matters, even when it's invisible to others.

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