From a little bit of stardust

And it’s a…!

Jay and I were annoyingly early for our appointment. It was a bit odd when we first arrived. There was a sitting room like a living room, but no reception desk or person. Good thing that there was a family there also waiting and told us that someone would come back to greet us and more importantly where the bathroom was! I could feel my blood pressure was up, and I was very excited when someone finally came back to me and greeted me and gave me some forms to fill out. The girl there was with her family and just wanted a gender identification. Jay and I watched old 3D movies of others babies on the flat screen while we waited. It wasn’t long at all and a sonographer named Stephanie saw us. It was a nice room. Large and had several flat screens and couches for family to sit on. Jay sat right next to me as I lay on the bed and she started.

She first began by trying to get it’s face. I felt so unsure of what I was looking at. Finally a little head, eyes, and nose came clear. The darn thing stayed the entire time with it’s arm up on it’s face and we rarely got a picture of it’s whole face. The umbilical cord was also across and in front of it’s mouth, so some pictures had a dark shadow even though the ultrasound could see through it. She jiggled my belly a lot to get the baby to move, so if you watch the DVD and see shaking- it’s not a seizure. It would wiggle it’s fingers or move it’s elbow, but it sure was comfy with it’s left arm over it’s head- as Jay watched the whole thing with his arm over his head (he sleeps that way, too, I think it’s his baby).

She headed down to it’s legs. Clamped shut and with its knees tucked in. I panicked that I wasn’t going to get to know the gender AND I wasn’t going to get good pictures. We did get a lot of it’s body- arms and legs. She went back to the face and Jay and talked about whose button nose it had. It’s eyes opened a few times. That looked so strange because it was just dark. It still slept and still didn’t move much except a few kicks. She went back down to it’s legs and turned the picture around a lot. I looked at Jay’s face and I saw he already knew what it was. I was having a hard time telling what was what.

She got a good shot and took a still picture and typed: BOY. I put my hand to my mouth and thought I was going to cry. “We’re gonna have a baby boy!” I said. Jay’s gonna have his boy. So like any good wife, I had to admit his guess was right and mine was wrong.

The rest of the experience was wonderful, even though he (I get to say HE now!) didn’t cooperate. We still got 30 minutes of baby to Jay’s techno music on DVD and three 3D color photos we liked. They aren’t all of his face, but we picked ones we thought were showing different things. The picture I like the best is one with arms, legs, and a bit of the head tucked in. It kind of shows more of how he is laying in there.

So now, as I am awake with dreams of my new son, I came upstairs working out leg cramps (those are more and more frequent, ugh). I pulled Jay’s photo album his sister made of him for his 21st birthday and the photos my dad dropped off of Daniel and I. The first pictures I went for this morning were of my brother. I just had a feeling it looked more like him- considering he’s a boy. I thought the resemblance was there, but my baby boy’s head isn’t quite that big. Daniel was a BIG baby. Then I pulled out mine. His cheekbones might be higher like mine, but definitely not my nose or forehead or lips- and my eyes are closer together. So then I find the first picture in Jay’s album. Match! Perfect match! I woke jay up to show him. This baby looked like a baby Jay with higher cheekbones.

See Photographs on the left to see the other pictures.

I can’t wait until Jay gets home tonight to get the DVD up. It’s long so if you watch it, fast forward through bits you don’t want to see. And those of you who are modest, you can speed past the section where our son decides he’s not shy of his bits, just his face. No doubt a boy. Even a 3D shot!

I guess we need to start thinking about names now?

Filed by meg at March 8th, 2007 under Daily Entries