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Mar. 10th, 2011 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olorielLast week, I went to an ultrasound specialist, who measured about every available piece of the offspring. (Not because there were any 'acute' irregularities, which is usually the reason why you get sent there, but mostly just because
It was half fascinating and half creepy - I mean, we got to see the fetus' brains and stuff. Thanks to Doppler sonography we got to see how the blood moves through the heart and the main veins! And we could count the bones in those tiny little wrists and everything! Amazing how much you can make visible these days.
Offspring chose to annoy the specialist by perpetually waving his hands in front of his face whenever the specialist tried to take a souvenir photo for us. Sneaky little fellow! So there was no high-resolution 3D face picture, alas.
(The specialist also clearly wasn't amused by the parents-to-be making their own jokes. It's all srs bsnz! So when Jörg and I turned to look at each other while the doc was measuring the different parts of the brains (did I mention the amazingness of modern medical technology?) and tried to play down our vague unease by going "Wow, look, we actually managed to produce something with a working brain!" we earned a very stern "I'm the boss and I decide when it's joking time" sort of grunt. Lalala...
And I was SO tempted to burst out laughing when he confirmed that we were indeed looking at a little boy. He used the term Gemächt, a somewhat old-fashioned German term for the testicles and penis that I've never seen or heard used except jokingly/ironically. Etymologically it roughly translates to "might thing(s)" (or, less literally, "prowess" in its historical sense). I found it hilarious that he was talking about a "might thing" on such a tiny creature! Particularly considering that the "might" isn't fully developed yet anyway, and won't be for several years...)
Anyway!
This week, I had the regular 2nd trimester screening, and this time there were no sneaky little hands in front of the face! Perhaps Offspring just likes my gynaecologist better. (I certainly do.) She was delighted, at any rate, and took picture after picture "because we won't be this lucky ever again". Offspring meanwhile practiced his facial muscles, so now I have a plethora of scan photos in various (apparent) attitudes of grumpy. Other than that there wasn't much to do for Dr Kox aside from confirming things she'd previously noted. Developmentally, Offspring is still slightly ahead of the curve; placenta is attached to the back "wall" of the uterus (which is supposedly somewhat safer in case of accidents). Next check-up in four weeks, etc.
Click here for new ultrasound pics - rather huge (400x1905 px), so no embedded picture this time. Little grumpface!
(Poor child - not born yet, but already so well-documented...)
After dinner yesterday, when Jörg put his hand on my tum, Offspring gave such a powerful shove that Jörg could feel it. Yay! ^^ (I say that now. I expect that when such shoves grow more frequent, I shall be less delighted...)
So that's coming along.
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Date: 2011-03-10 02:13 pm (UTC)(I seem to be saying this a lot lately...)
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Date: 2011-03-10 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-10 04:23 pm (UTC)Or if someone sends a boat with a hunk of radioactive glass westwards, and summons an army of gods and angels to destroy you, but who'd do that, right?
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Date: 2011-03-10 05:48 pm (UTC)It's ok. We're used to it. We have two cats after all. ^^
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Date: 2011-03-11 10:14 am (UTC)