Is it coincidence that the 200th post on Infrequent@Best also happens to be Tiny Elvis’s 20 week ultrasound? Probably, but that doesn’t change a thing. Without further ado…
The ultrasound tech was great, giving us ample time to watch her handiwork. Of course, she was doing this to take Very Important Measurements that we do not understand, but it was a nice 10 minutes none the less. Anatomically, everything is A OK. Tiny E has a Single Umbilical Artery, but with good results from the AFP test last month and no other physical abnormalities, that’s totally an OK thing to have. We did NOT learn the sex of the baby, even though the temptation did creep up on us last night. The ultrasound tech said she didn’t notice either. Tiny E was M-O-V-I-N-G! The tech had a hard time pinning down a good image, going as far as jiggling Tori’s belly with the probe to calm baby down (didn’t work!). The above images are the result of a 3D/4D ultrasound, and boy oh boy was it cool to see the moving image. The majority of printed pics were standard 2D, and they stayed with the doctor. I took some iPhone pics of them that you can see here if you’re really interested.
You have to admit, the hair in the first picture is kind of Elvis-y, yeah? Baby has see-thru skin (cool!) right now, so you can see the ulna and radius in their arm in the first picture.
We’re so happy, and this ultrasound just further solidified that I have a real baby on the way. Less than 20 weeks to go, better get my ass in gear!
March 26th, 2009
It’s funny, but it seems like not a lot is going on right now. It may be due to the fact that we were fortunate and have had an ultrasound at every prenatal visit so far! Our 14/15 week visit last week held no such opportunity. We have the AFP test scheduled in two weeks, and the 20 week ultrasound complete with cardiac anatomy evaluation in 6 weeks. We really had our ducks in a row this visit and asked our doctor some difficult questions regarding his c-section rates as well as his outlook on doulas, inducing labor and episiotomies. His answers were candid and thoughtful, and we took this as a chance to gossip for a half hour afterwords about what his tone and body language meant. Always deducing, we are. So long story short, no pictures this month, but looking forward to some amazing 20 week sonograms soon (!).
For the time being, our Tiny Elvis is the size (depending on who you ask) of :
a) An apple
b) A baseball
February 17th, 2009
We visited our OB this morning for our second monthly checkup. The testing I though might take place didn’t happen, which is great! The doc told us that with our medical history and age, there’s very little risk of anything and testing is superfluous. When he tried to locate and let us hear our babys heartbeat via doppler, there was a moment of WTF when he simply couldn’t find it. ”No worries” he told us, “we’ll cheat and use ultrasound”. Bonus for us…we not only heard our babys heart for the first time today, but we got another ultrasound pic out of it!
Lots of parents get excited with hearing the first heartbeat, but for me it was the face. I was looking at a moving image of the child I’ll get to meet in 7 more months. And moving it was! Baby was waaaay at the back of Tori’s uterus (hence the trouble locating heartbeat with doppler), but it was groovin’ back there! Almost certainly a sign that our little one will be a spinner.
January 15th, 2009
