Two Days Later

So it's about 48 hours later and I'm scheduled for my first ultrasound since as it turns out I'm right about due for one. We get to the doctor's office early in the morning and go inside this room with a computer screen and a bed. I can see the monitor on the wall where I'm laying and I get some more jelly on the belly so we can find out just how far along I really am.

The sonographer is warm and friendly and she starts sliding the scanner across my stomach and asks if we want to know the sex of the child and my husband and I say in unison, "YES!" Well in looking at the feet and legs which apparently the baby loves to show we can see it's a girl. For the first time we see movement of feet, hands, legs, nose, spine, chest, fingers and the heartbeat. It's very real to me now and it's very strange to know that what I'm watching on the screen is actually happening inside me.

One of the things we discover is that she, yes we're calling her "she" now, doesn't really "like having her picture taken." She keeps her hands in front of her face and the sonographer can't take all the pictures she needs to. I discover later, in a fetal echo cardiogram, that she's probably sensitive to the sonic wave because she tends to move around a lot during the procedure.

The cool, quiet, dark room is putting my husband in nap mode and he's struggling to stay awake in between the obvious images we see. He asks questions to keep himself up. So about 30 minutes later of pictures/measurements of her head, femur and spine the OB comes in to take a few more pictures and concludes 1) I'm about 21 and a half weeks; 2) I'll be due approximately May 12th; and 3) We have a healthy baby girl.

So, who do we tell first?


Baby Feet










Unfortunately, this is the only image we got on the CD that was recognizable to the untrained eye (that would be me). All the others were a smudges as far as I could tell.