Level II ultrasound...
Sep. 10th, 2008 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaAll's well with the Niblet! He is just perfect.
It wasn't the world's greatest ultrasound experience - what kind of sonographer starts out by getting multiple pictures and measurements of the cervix, placenta, and amniotic fluid level before getting around to checking to see whether your baby is alive? - but we saw what we needed to see. All the tiny organs in their places - the two hemispheres of the brain, the four chambers of the heart, the bladder, the kidneys, the stomach, the diaphragm. We watched blood flow through the umbilical cord. We saw the bones of the arms and legs, hands and feet, and the long curved spine with its vertebrae. And we got an extremely clear view of a tiny little scrotum and penis.
A boy. The funny thing is, I had a strong intuition - based on nothing at all - that it would be a boy this time. I had a 50/50 chance of getting to feel psychic. Now I need to figure out how the heck to parent a boy. A boy! The Niblet is our son.
It wasn't the world's greatest ultrasound experience - what kind of sonographer starts out by getting multiple pictures and measurements of the cervix, placenta, and amniotic fluid level before getting around to checking to see whether your baby is alive? - but we saw what we needed to see. All the tiny organs in their places - the two hemispheres of the brain, the four chambers of the heart, the bladder, the kidneys, the stomach, the diaphragm. We watched blood flow through the umbilical cord. We saw the bones of the arms and legs, hands and feet, and the long curved spine with its vertebrae. And we got an extremely clear view of a tiny little scrotum and penis.
A boy. The funny thing is, I had a strong intuition - based on nothing at all - that it would be a boy this time. I had a 50/50 chance of getting to feel psychic. Now I need to figure out how the heck to parent a boy. A boy! The Niblet is our son.
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Date: 2008-09-11 03:06 am (UTC)