Here is me and my Bebi at the doctors office, waiting for the sonogram. Isn't it amazing how much better black & white photos make people look better? Right now, I'm debating whether to tell you all the details of my first ultrasound appointment. Why should I show restraint? I shouldn't. I figure... you know me, we all love a funny story. So I went to the doctor with my baby's daddy, Christopher Lewis Volckmann, and my friend Melissa. They show us to the exam room and they tell me to strip down neked from the waist down and put on this paper robe- not so comfortable. So I apparently had some mental block that didn't understand "take off everything below your waist" and I left me under-roos on. I figured that I only saw sonograms done in movies, and they put that thing on your belly. Why would I have to strip down to nada? That would be silly and unnecessary...So I get on the table (which has what looks to be a doggie wee-wee pad) and lay on me back. The doctor comes in, introduces himself and tells me to relax. So his back is turned towards me and he's prepping the sonogram device thingy. He turns around and has this long massive stick-like device that's hooked up to the sonogram machine. "This is the sonogram PROBE..." My eyes get SO big and open, you would have thought I turned white. "Just bend your knees and insert this like you would a tampon." He said it so casually, and I'm in shock. "Excuse me?" I asked. So now it hits me why I was supposed to take my 'roos off. Man, what a challenge.
Anyways, after that fiasco, things were a lot easier and "less shocking in a bad way." TA-DA!!! Look at it! Here is the first visual confirmation of our upcoming baby!! At first, everything was very technical. He showed me my uterus, the ovary from which the very egg came from (the right) and then the baby. it was extremely tiny and you couldn't see much movement- you could just see a little glitch of the pixels. He continued on with the technical jargon, which I remembered from high school and college biology classes, and he then zoomed in. The sonogram picture to the right is what we saw, but in motion. That "glitch of pixels" was the HEARTBEAT! the baby wasn't developed enough to where you could make out much of anything but the heartbeat, but it was AMAZING! the second we saw he/she, it became so much more real. *cue tears and sniffles* it's a rather intense experience... i'm making a little person inside of me! the due date is AUGUST 31st. Mark it on your calendar folks...
