Our "son"-ogram
Little Elvis told us a secret today -- we went to have a sonogram and the verdict is in. We'll be having a baby boy and the due date has been moved up a bit (now February 17).
I mentioned in my last post that we didn't have the sonogram at the OB-GYN office, but had to go to a different medical complex, and it turned out to be our best pre-natal medical experience to date. We never saw a doctor, but the technician, Jean, was both pleasant and professional and happy to field all of our questions.
So what is involved in a sonogram? First a lubricating jelly is spread all over the lower abdomen and then the technician runs the sensor all over the lower stomach. She was surprisingly thorough--looking at the baby from every angle, having my wife roll to different positions, freezing and zooming in on images of the baby's mouth, nose, legs, hands and, in this case, penis and scrotum. In fact, she measured the size of the head, abdomen, and tibia of the baby to determine how far along the pregnancy has progressed. Turns out that, whereas my wife thought we were in our 20th week, we are actually in the 21st week, with the due date moving up from February 23 to February 17.
After we got out of the office and hopped into the car, we immediately called my wife's parents as well as my father. I captured some of Meredith's conversation with her father with our digital camera and I'll try to figure out how to post that video in the near future. Needless to say, all the grandparents-to-be are wonderfully excited.
I mentioned in my last post that we didn't have the sonogram at the OB-GYN office, but had to go to a different medical complex, and it turned out to be our best pre-natal medical experience to date. We never saw a doctor, but the technician, Jean, was both pleasant and professional and happy to field all of our questions.
So what is involved in a sonogram? First a lubricating jelly is spread all over the lower abdomen and then the technician runs the sensor all over the lower stomach. She was surprisingly thorough--looking at the baby from every angle, having my wife roll to different positions, freezing and zooming in on images of the baby's mouth, nose, legs, hands and, in this case, penis and scrotum. In fact, she measured the size of the head, abdomen, and tibia of the baby to determine how far along the pregnancy has progressed. Turns out that, whereas my wife thought we were in our 20th week, we are actually in the 21st week, with the due date moving up from February 23 to February 17.
After we got out of the office and hopped into the car, we immediately called my wife's parents as well as my father. I captured some of Meredith's conversation with her father with our digital camera and I'll try to figure out how to post that video in the near future. Needless to say, all the grandparents-to-be are wonderfully excited.
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