News from the womb

[oloriel]

Offspring 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.

Comments

[barbardin.livejournal.com]

Das ist so spannend! Ich glaube ja nicht, dass ich irgendwann mal Kinder haben (wollen) werde - wie denn auch, ohne potenziellen Vater - aber spannend ist es allemal. Es ist so faszinierend, was die Natur aus zwei einzelnen Zellen baut. Zack, schon hat es ein Geschlecht, ein Gesicht und nur ein klein bisschen später kommt's wahrscheinlich schon in die Pubertät und du fragst dich, wie das denn bitte jetzt so schnell passiert ist.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Der Hammer, oder? Und das Gesicht und Geschlecht und überhaupt die ganze Erbinformation war ja schon festgelegt, als das Ganze noch nicht größer war als ein Komma! *staun*