Ultrasound

Here is a short video of part of the 20-week ultrasound from this morning! The baby is healthy and growing right on track. It looked like it had 10 fingers and 10 toes, 2 eyes, 2 kidneys, a bladder, and a 4-chambered heart. I'll "annouce" on the blog whether it's a girl or a boy and its name this weekend. Nathan and I are having a party tomorrow to announce the sex to our families, so we're keeping it a secret until tomorrow night.

Nathan was holding both the camera AND Josephine while trying to film the ultrasound screen, so it's a little bumpy, plus the ultrasound screen does weird things when videotaped. Most of the video is the ultrasound tech measuring the baby's head, but there are a couple face shots. I would post more than this video, but either the videos are too large or we talk about "he" or "she" in the video.

Here are some still pictures from the ultrasound.

A picture of the baby's profile -- head on the left, body on the right.

A straight-on picture of the face. The mouth is open. The baby looks a little terrified in this picture.

The baby kept its legs crossed the whole time. There is a faint blue oval around the legs if you can't find them.


I'll update the blog with the big gender annoucement either this weekend or the beginning of next week (Nathan's birthday is this weekend, so hopefully he'll let us do something fun for him. He is very insistant on NOT having a birthday party or presents, though.)