Yesterday we had the ultrasound of our newest little one. It
still amazes me how much they can see on an ultrasound – the four valves of the
heart beating, the little kidneys and stomach and bones, the eyes and ears,
wriggling hands and kicking feet. An amazing, tiny human.
It’s hard to tell what your baby will be like from it’s very
first “pictures”, although it is strange that several of Emry’s ultrasound
pictures show her with her arm up over her face – the exact thing she does now
when she is tired and ready to fall asleep. If this baby’s ultrasound is any
indication, he’s camera shy.
The baby was lying in the womb in a transverse (horizontal)
position, which explains why I often feel this painful jutting in my side. It’s
his (or her) head. He seems to like to jut it right into my side when I hold
something there, like Emry or, in this case, the technician’s “camera”. It
hurts. This allowed for great pictures of the stomach, and spine, and arms, and
just about everything – except the face.
The tech needed to see the face to measure the distance
between the eyes (not sure why – maybe to see how big he is) and pictures of
the mouth and nose (to see if he has a cleft palette, which he does not).
However, he refused to turn his face in any sort of direction towards us. So,
she had me get up and go use the restroom. Often a change in position will get
the baby to move.
Not this one. Nor did taking five laps up and down the long
hallways outside the office (walking fast and shaking my hips as she ordered,
something like an Olympic speed walker). She was about to give up and tell me
I’d simply have to come back when – finally – the little face appeared. Very
briefly, but for just long enough to get a snapshot and the necessary
measurements.
I suppose being camera shy might be good for a second born.
After all, even in this digital age, the second child simply does not get as
many pictures taken as the first. But whatever this indicates, at least we know
this: our baby is very healthy. And should be with us in just over four months!
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