Thursday, June 22, 2006

Week 35 Ultrasound Results: All is Well

Everything is super. The kid is exactly where it should be with its head down, facing forward. The kid's butt is right under my sternum and so that's what probably where we got the fetal heartbeat. The pictures are not as clear as last time so you'll just get a side profile of the kid to peer at - the kid's too big for a nice clear view right now. Head's to the right and the kid has both hands up by its face but it is not sucking its thumb. The tech was trying to figure out whose profile this kid has, but that's just so not what we care about.

We saw the baby's face with eyes opening and closing and mouth moving. It does not look like the kid has a cleft lip, which I was moderately concerned about because I had a high Vitamin A intake in early pregnancy. The tech also checked for amniotic fluid levels, which look great. The ultrasound tech tells us the kid has hair and a big head - the first thing she said was, "Wow, that's a big head!" This is not unexpected, but also it's not the most comforting thought for me right now.

We did not find out what gender the kid was. She told us to look away at the appropriate time, but we honestly couldn't tell half the time what we were looking at. But I'm just so relieved that the kid is exactly lined up right where it should be. We've been really lucky so far.