In any case, we met with a doctor today. Her name was Dr. Phair (think that is how you spell her name). She didn't do a whole lot besides answer questions and check on the babies heartbeat, but it definitely was not a boring visit. She took another ultrasound, and the image totally blew us away. OUR BABY LOOKS LIKE A BABY!!
All of the past ultrasounds have shown a little blob inside of another blob. This time, the image clearly showed a little kid with a big freaking head! The ultrasound image is real-time so you can see what is going on, and the heart was beating really fast and our baby was slinging around all over the place! We could see the baby kicking its feet, and moving its hands towards its mouth and then away again. Kind of looked like it was twisting, too. When the doctor saw him/her, she immediately said, "wow, you have a very active baby," so I guess that they do not normally move that much all of the time. Guess we interrupted some morning exercises.
In any case, we go in again at the end of May for blood work that is going to screen for hormones that are normally expressed in association with birth defects like Downs Syndrome and stuff like that. Then at like 18 weeks we do a big formal ultrasound where they will take a lot of measurements, check to be sure that the anatomy looks OK, and tell us the sex if we would like to know.
I got some shots down below. These are really crappy for the time being until I can get the photo back from Becka and do a real scan of the image. One is the naked pic and then the second has got some labels. Our baby is lying on its back and has its hand up towards its face.
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So we can verify that your baby has at least one hand and at least one foot. thats good news! Except now we can also confirm that I have lost my bid in the poll for boy/girl/other.
Well, there is always the possibility that a spider could bite Becka just as the earth gets hit by some cosmic radiation and produce a superpower spider baby.
that can fly.
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