Let me just say that my ultrasound appointment on Tuesday was incredibly amusing. I know a lot of women cry when they get to see their babies swimming around on the ultrasound machine, but I not once felt like crying. I smiled. A lot. This little Squishy is a character, I’m not even kidding you.
To illustrate for you why this ultrasound was so mind-blowingly fun, I’ll show you what the previous two were like. Here’s the very first ultrasound we got at 6 weeks:
A whole lotta blurry nothing.
The ultrasound confirmed Squishy’s heartbeat, and that he/she was not a twin. But that’s about it. Reassuring to say the least, but not a whole lot going on up there.
The next ultrasound we had, at my first prenatal appointment at 8 weeks, was also pretty uneventful. We saw Squishy’s heartbeat again, and imagined the baby looked bigger and more coccoon-ish, but still very blurry. I swear, though, that if you look close enough you can see tiny little hands in this one:
Tiny little blur-like hands?
But then. Then! Came week 12, and the big nuchal-fold test that requires an hour-long ultrasound. I was so giddy about this appointment I grinned the whole time I sat in that office. Wes joined me in the room and we waited while the really nice ultrasound technician put the warm goo on my tummy.
Look at that face!
An image came into focus that we, to our amazement, were able to recognize as the profile of a face. A face! In my uterus! And then, it got even better: The baby started grooving. Dancing away, throwing the little hands up, kicking the legs, and having a really fun fetus party. I laughed. I had to! I’d never seen the baby move before and now here was this miraculous little person shaking his/her little groove thing while we watched!
Every time I laughed the baby jolted a little, as though angry to have missed the joke. Squishy refused to cooperate with the ultrasound technician, so we have no idea if we’re having a boy or a girl, but we have an extremely active little munchkin and for now that’s more than enough. The baby passed all the tests with flying colors and definitely has two hands, two feet, and a cute little nose.
Honestly? I couldn’t be happier.
Yay, Squishy looks very cute!! I am having an ultrasound next week, but for completely different reasons…=(
Congrats on your active little munchkin!
So what do you think Squishy was dancing to? Franz Ferdinand or Lady Gaga?
Adorable!
-Delisa, Thank you! Oh no, I hope your ultrasound goes well!
-Blanche, Oh my gosh, that is a really tough question. There was definitely a lot of movement, but I’m tempted to say the baby was grooving to something funkier than Franz Ferdinand and more inventive than Lady GaGa. Perhaps the Black Eyed Peas?
Yay for fuzzy ultrasound shots!! Now, for the belly pics to begin….
-Belly Girl, Seriously! I keep meaning to ask Wes to snap a picture of me but then I forget and now he’s leaving for the weekend! I’ll try to finagle a shot this weekend, we’ll see how it goes…
Congrats! He or she is starting to look like an actual round little person! Isn’t it the most exciting thing ever? Make sure you have someone make a belly cast of you when you get big. You’ll look at it in a year or two and you won’t believe that was you. Keep the pics coming.
Best wishes to you Sweetie!
-Beth, It is SO amazing to see the baby looking like a baby, it gives me thrills every time I look that that little profile. I’m still working up the nerve to take a belly shot! Maybe the cast will be less intimidating! Thank you so much for your sweet comment!