Yesterday JZ and I went for our 20 week ultrasound - a great way to ring in the new year I believe! Ultrasounds have to be the coolest invention ever. If this whole teaching thing doesn't work out for me, maybe I'll look into being an ultrasound tech.
Anyway, wowie, wow, wow! This time This Baby didn't even fit on the whole screen. We were easily able to confirm the sex and then the tech showed us all of his body parts and took a million measurements. She checked out the amount of amniotic fluid, the length of all of the major bones, brain circumference (smart, very smart!), etc. Everything was measuring in the "normal" range as far as she could tell, so that's good news. We also saw a 4 chamber heart, his brain divided in half, fluid in his bladder (meaning his kidneys are working), fluid in his stomach (meaning his sucking and swallowing), and lots of little vertebrae along his closed spine. All good news!! The tech told us that the radiologist will read the pictures and call us if they find anything out of the ordinary. If not, no news is good news.
The only creepy part was that he spent most of the time facing out, so the ultrasound machine picked up his face from straight on instead of a profile shot. It looks very skeletal and we could see eye sockets and the lenses of his eyes. Cool, glad they're there, still a little scary looking. One thing Jer noticed, that I didn't, was that we had only seen one arm. While I was looking to make sure he had Jer's nose instead of mine, he was counting finger, arm, and leg bones. He was concerned that we could only see one arm - he had it up near his face waving at us. The tech showed us that his left arm was down at his side and the right one was straight up in their air. I love it - he's raising his hand already. The good teacher is so proud!
Anyway, wowie, wow, wow! This time This Baby didn't even fit on the whole screen. We were easily able to confirm the sex and then the tech showed us all of his body parts and took a million measurements. She checked out the amount of amniotic fluid, the length of all of the major bones, brain circumference (smart, very smart!), etc. Everything was measuring in the "normal" range as far as she could tell, so that's good news. We also saw a 4 chamber heart, his brain divided in half, fluid in his bladder (meaning his kidneys are working), fluid in his stomach (meaning his sucking and swallowing), and lots of little vertebrae along his closed spine. All good news!! The tech told us that the radiologist will read the pictures and call us if they find anything out of the ordinary. If not, no news is good news.
The only creepy part was that he spent most of the time facing out, so the ultrasound machine picked up his face from straight on instead of a profile shot. It looks very skeletal and we could see eye sockets and the lenses of his eyes. Cool, glad they're there, still a little scary looking. One thing Jer noticed, that I didn't, was that we had only seen one arm. While I was looking to make sure he had Jer's nose instead of mine, he was counting finger, arm, and leg bones. He was concerned that we could only see one arm - he had it up near his face waving at us. The tech showed us that his left arm was down at his side and the right one was straight up in their air. I love it - he's raising his hand already. The good teacher is so proud!
The tech took lots of pictures and and burned them to a CD for us. Although we did make our friends at a New Year's party watch the slide show, I'll only make you look at a few.
Handsome, huh? That is his right hand in the air. How polite!
This is the face forward shot the creeped us out a little bit. You can see both eye sockets and the heart.
Yep, this is what you think it is. This is a "spread eagle" shot from the bum looking up. You can see both thighs and his "boy parts" in the middle. Daddy is so proud!
It's hard to believe that we are already halfway though our great adventure. As we rang in 2009 last night, we did so with great enthusiasm and excitement for what the new year holds for us!
No comments:
Post a Comment