June 5th, Ultrasound

Today we went for our ultrasound appointment. We were so excited to see if our baby would let us see his/her gender. If you're not familiar with how these things go, they lay you down on the table, and put this goop on your tummy and then smear it around with this instrument that they press into your tummy. As they do that, precious little images of the baby appear on the screen. After they took several measurement of the head and brain, legs and arms etc., she asked if we wanted to find out the gender. YES, of course. After a moment of silent anticipation, she said, "it's a girl". Peter asked her how certain she was, hoping for a percentage. She said she'd bet on it. "All I see between the legs are lines". There was nothing to indicate that it might be a boy. It was difficult for us to see what she seemd to be so sure of. We are very excited to be having a little girl.To the right is her head. It looks like she's blowing bubbles, but those are her fingers, just to the left of her little nose. You can clearly see her spine in this shot, and that little nob on top of her belly, looks like either her knee, or maybe her little toes. Tough to tell. The sound on this machine wasn't working, or hooked up, but the heartbeat was 145. The technician said all looked well and that we should come back in 6 weeks to be sure she is growing at a normal rate.

Check the side for continued growth of our little one.