Meet Uni!

As promised, we have decided to post together about our fantastically baby-filled day, yesterday. We started our day off at the OB with our 20 week ultrasound. The ultrasound tech was great and she explained everything to us as she was taking measurements of the baby. Everything looked healthy and normal, including the baby’s heart, brain, kidneys, liver and all sorts of other things.

Here is a picture of Uni’s foot (on the left side of the picture, viewed from below so it looks like a foot print). Next to the foot is what we think is Uni’s butt (not quite sure)

The ultrasound tech was great about making sure we didn’t find out the sex of the baby. We had her find out what it was so that we could write it down and put it in a sealed envelope- but other than that it isn’t written anywhere, not even on our medical chart!
Here’s another shot of Uni- this time the face- a little scary, but we’ll pretend it’s cute!

The Tech then gave us these fantastic shots of Uni sucking his/her thumb (or picking that Benoit nose, not sure which)


The second one definitely looks more like nose picking- what a cool baby!

Just when we thought the ultrasound couldn’t get any more amazing the tech switched transducers and pushed a few buttons and voila, 3D images of Uni!
Apparently my placenta was in the way (in case you were wondering) which kept us from getting a completely clear view of Uni’s face, but we still thought this was really cool. Here are the three pictures we got- two of them look a little like smiles, albeit alien smiles, and the other you can see the two hands in front of something that vaguely resembles a face.



The 3D images were easier to distinguish when they were “live” and we were able to watch the baby moving around. You can make out a little hand in one of them. It was amazing to watch the baby wiggling around!

And finally, the image that my mom likes best- Uni all laid out with arms by the side. You can make out the little umbilical cord, and no that other projection is not what you think it is- we asked the tech about that!

After the fantastic morning at the doctor we went to our first BABIES class (Birth and Bonding, Infant Education and Safety). It is going to be very useful to us- they really emphasize the role of the father as coach which we both appreciate. We start floor exercises next week- hard to believe we are already going to start our breathing and relaxation techniques! The class is long- 3 hours a week for 12 weeks, but it includes prepared childbirth (Lamaze-type stuff), infant care and nurturing, and infant CPR among other things. The instructors seem great and there are at least 10 other couples- we are very excited about it and glad to be doing it now so that we have enough time to complete all 12 weeks (hard to believe that 12 weeks from now we’ll be 6 weeks away from having our baby!).

Hope you all enjoy the pictures, feel free to leave comments or give us a call if you have trouble making anything out.

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