Pardon me while a gush. . .
Monday, 16 July 2007 by Joscelynn Tomaw
He’s a stubborn little bugger, that much we know.
The ultrasound started out quite smoothly on Friday; the technician quickly told us that little Jonah is a boy and proceded to take images of his organs. It turns out, however, that the full organ scan includes an image of the crown of the baby’s head, and ours was cozied up against my pelvic bone. The technician jiggled my belly, no movement. Then she asked me to lie on my side for a few minutes, no movement. She tilted the bed upside down, no movement. I sat up for a while, this was supposed to be the real ticket, no movement. Finally, exasperated, she told me to just get up and walk around or something. I did a little hula dancing just to be sure and voila, that did the trick.
It put this mama’s mind at ease to see that little mouth opening and closing and the four chambers of his heart pumping away. I haven’t stopped smiling about it since Friday. I can hardly wait to meet my baby boy.
I have also been working out how to construct the whale costume that Jonah will wear for his first Halloween.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:37
hi jonah!
it almost looks like he’s sucking his thumb! so cute…
July 17th, 2007 at 8:39
I know! The technician said those are his knees up by his face, but then it doesn’t look like there’s anything below his knees. We have pictures of feet and nobody said “Woah! Your baby’s feet are attached to it’s knees!” So I think there must be calves in there somewhere, we just can’t see them in that picture.