News from the womb
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olorielOffspring was caught sleeping (snuggling against the placenta, awww) so it didn't flail around as four weeks ago. Fortunately it was facing towards the outside today so sonography was rather more fruitful than last time. Everything appears normal and in good order. A few days ahead of the average - according to the data, the kid might thus be born a bit earlier than originally calculated. (As long as it doesn't pick my grandmother's birthday...)
So far the only potential problem is that my blood's slightly low on iron, not dramatically but I'll have to keep an eye on it. Well, that's not too hard.
Also!
Gyn: "You keep saying 'he' - already certain that it's a boy?"
Moi: "No idea, actually. I just say 'he' because fetus is grammatically masculine."
Gyn: "Ah, ok. Some mothers feel sure about what they're going to get so I thought you were one of them."
Moi: "Nope, no idea. People keep asking but it's just grammar."
Gyn: "Do you want to know?"
Moi: "Well if it can be seen, I don't mind knowing."
Gyn: *scans a little further down* "Oh look, a penis! Seems you can stick with 'he'."
(This just when I was slowly beginning to feel partial. Only yesterday I admitted to myself that I was hoping just a bit more that it would be a girl *g*)
You can't see it in the ultrasound print because by now Offspring is too large to fit into the image in one piece. Last check-up, it was about 6 cm "tall" - now it's 20. Within four weeks. DUDE.
Gyn also said that it was perfectly possible that I might feel it - him - move when I put my hand on my tummy (I wasn't certain whether I was imagining that or whether it was just my intestines or what). Soon I should also feel movement even when I don't specifically look for it. Squee!
Another three weeks and this my pregnancy will be halfway over. Time flies! O.ó
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*It is. In German, too, so this is not my general humanist smart-assing. Although my gynaecologist, having studied medicine in this country, must have known the Latin bit anyway.
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Date: 2011-02-01 11:34 am (UTC)Hehe, I was sooooo certain I was having a girl with Aedan, when I found out he was a boy I was O.O! Refusing to overthink it this time! :P
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:03 pm (UTC)My mother was theoretising that it might be a boy because I wasn't sick at all, because apparently she was rather sick while pregnant with me but had no trouble at all with my brother. She'll be amused to hear that she was right!
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Date: 2011-02-01 11:37 am (UTC)I can't deny that I'm hoping my firstborn will be a girl, too. I blame it on the lack of girls in my family.
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:05 pm (UTC)Well, first name will probably be Felix. Second name is still matter of heated discussion. ^^
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Date: 2011-02-01 11:48 am (UTC)The first print is really good, he looks cute already!
Nice icon by the way! :D
Two babies in my small-sized circle of friends/family in one year. I'm still trying to process that information. :)
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:09 pm (UTC)The only non-cheesy maternity icon I could think of! :D
Yeah, it's a weird thought even for me. This was always a "future prospect" (just as finishing university), and the fact that the future has come takes some getting used to...
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Date: 2011-02-01 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-01 02:26 pm (UTC)Moi: "Nope, no idea. People keep asking but it's just grammar."
I love you! ♥
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:23 pm (UTC)Well, it's true!
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Date: 2011-02-01 02:30 pm (UTC)Schade, dass er die Augen zu hat. So wie der aussieht, würde er sonst wahrscheinlich nicht nur zurück winken sondern auch noch mit den Fingern "Fötus, der" buchstabieren *G*
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:50 pm (UTC)In German, the words for "baby" and "child" are neutral (as are most diminutives), so people probably expected me to say "it" until I knew better. But "it" is so terribly clinical for precious little baby, I think! And because masculine nouns for people in German can often be used generically (e.g. Ärzte may mean "exclusively male doctors" or "female and male doctors") whereas feminine nouns for people definitely denote, well, female people (e.g. Ärztinnen means "exclusively female doctors" and nothing else)... well, I opted for something generically masculine without actually (necessarily) meaning someone male. Here goes my feminist cred! ;)
- Sorry, you didn't ask for that linguistics lecture. Bad Lyra! >_>
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 10:32 pm (UTC)I am not actually a fan of all that disjunction and very often find it absurd, but I can see the basic point. I just think that it's cumbersome in practice. ^^
Amusingly, of course, the original meaning of the word discriminate is "to make a difference [between something and something else]". If instead of saying "profesores" or "Krankenpfleger" you say, "profesores y profesoras" or "Krankenpfleger/innen", then what are you doing? You are making a difference between male and female, ergo - you discriminate...
Ah, the joys of language use.
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Date: 2011-02-01 10:51 pm (UTC)Precisely, you are aggravating the issue, which is a legacy from using a language which uses genders. The "-os y -as" just sounds appalling.
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:31 pm (UTC)I don't have anything coherent to say, but I wanted to assure you that I'm reading and interested.
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:56 pm (UTC)But awesome!
völlig ab vom Thema.....
Date: 2011-02-01 08:32 pm (UTC)Re: völlig ab vom Thema.....
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Date: 2011-02-01 10:31 pm (UTC)And a boy. Wow. XD XD XD
He'll have so much fun growing up at your place, chasing cats and sheep and what not.
And those ultrasound pics are awesome. Wow.
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Date: 2011-02-01 10:43 pm (UTC)But to make up for it, he'll hate our off-the-beaten-track place when he's old enough to want to go to parties... but not yet old enough to drive! XD
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Date: 2011-02-02 05:05 am (UTC)So he will have enough stuff to distract him from this minor flaw.
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Date: 2011-02-02 01:16 pm (UTC)Glad, that everything is going well.