Perfect Fit - Sonogram 12 weeks

Here is Baby XX at her week 12 sonogram. I like having these sonograms being often! We get to see her a lot more. It never gets old, it's never dull, and it's quite funny and entertaining and emotional. It's good to see that XX doesn't look like an alien anymore, right? At this point, the baby is only 2 inches long! It seems like it's much bigger through the sonogram when you can see the detailings of the spine, facial profile and such. The baby continued to kick and kinda flip around like a fish out of water. Still rather amazing watching that little heart beat.

Dr. Bala said that the size of the baby is normal, and the size of the baby's neck was normal (a pre-test for possible trisomy-21 or Down's Syndrome) It's always a relief hearing that the baby is progressing normally and is healthy. It's so mindblowing that all this development happens with all its intricacies- blood vessels, organs, body shape, nerves, hair, skeletal system, muscles, ALL OF IT. i think how can God not be involved in something so complex and beautiful. it's amazing that things don't go wrong more often considering the elaborate 40 week process. Baby is "fearfully and wonderfully made". There's my "deep thought" for this blog entry. XX is beautiful and amazing, yes? If you disagree, i challenge you to a duel.

Alien Baby Sonogram - 10 weeks

Here is the sonogram of Baby XX at 10 weeeks. we could see the hands, feet, legs, arms and even FINGERS! it was flippin around in my belly and moving around. so crazy to imagine i'm growing someone inside of me. right now, he/she is 2-2.5 inches long. if you look at the top picture, you can see the eyes, nose and jaw forming. when they took that picture, the baby was waving its arm around like it was waving. super cute. so we got a picture. :) the heartbeat was super fast, we got to hear it. the baby's head is massive as you can see. hopefully it'll grow into his head... unlike its mother. ;) i have sucha big head. hahahahHAH.

of course, i started crying. not like CRYING, but tearing, sniffling. it was a huge relief to see tht the baby was continuing to grow and live and thrive. though i knew everything was going to be "ok" and will work out, in the back of my head i was a little worried since my pregnancy horomone blood levels were going all over the place. my doctor didn't freak me out, but was just honest about the situation and that there was some concern. but then again, all pregnancies aren't "normal". part of me was scared that the baby wouldn't be alive and moving, or something terrible like that. so it was a huge relief. God's so amazing. i can't stop thinking about it.

the doctor scanned the area and showed the umbilical cord that was attached to the baby. he then said, "and there's only one." PHEW! he went on to explain how if there were more then it would be "here in this dark area". there was a slight possibility that there was going to be more than one, according to my hCG horomone levels. but only one baby! two would be twice the blessing, but twice the everything else. so one is good. :)