Andi
10-08-2008, 05:20 AM
So today, we went to our 16 wk u/s and the tech starts scanning my anatomy...here is your cervix...and here is your bladder...now let's look for your ovaries...I didn't realize how stressed I was until I practically screamed that it would be great if she could just confirm that my child was ALIVE!! Tears were streaming down my face and I think that I startled her a little. This is how the u/s tech behaved when she was unable to find a heartbeat with our first pregnancy at 12 wks and I think that it was bringing back bad memories.
Although we didn't see the familiar flicker, we definitely started to see the baby moving. I calmed a little. She measured and measured and measured some more. A stomach? Check. Kidneys? (Thomas had non-functioning kidneys and no renal arteries. Therefore he could not make amniotic fluid and build up his lungs. It is called Potter's Sequence and is 100% fatal.) At least one kidney! Check. Yippee!! And a full little bladder!!! Yippee Yippee!! So nice to hear.
So the tech left and the Dr. came in. More measuring. The tech couldn't get the nasal bone. ??? So she's looking at the face and the baby spins and spreads it's legs. She tries to move on to measure a leg...more spinning and spreading. Then she tried to measure the tummy...spin...spread. Finally she said, "Your son would like to show you his boy parts. They are quite stellar." She is Irish, but we think it is funny. :-) Stellar. Hmmmmm. :-)
So....I was wrong. I was sure we were having a girl. I was positive. I was wrong. We are having another boy.
I hope that we get to keep this one. ;-)
Andi
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Although we didn't see the familiar flicker, we definitely started to see the baby moving. I calmed a little. She measured and measured and measured some more. A stomach? Check. Kidneys? (Thomas had non-functioning kidneys and no renal arteries. Therefore he could not make amniotic fluid and build up his lungs. It is called Potter's Sequence and is 100% fatal.) At least one kidney! Check. Yippee!! And a full little bladder!!! Yippee Yippee!! So nice to hear.
So the tech left and the Dr. came in. More measuring. The tech couldn't get the nasal bone. ??? So she's looking at the face and the baby spins and spreads it's legs. She tries to move on to measure a leg...more spinning and spreading. Then she tried to measure the tummy...spin...spread. Finally she said, "Your son would like to show you his boy parts. They are quite stellar." She is Irish, but we think it is funny. :-) Stellar. Hmmmmm. :-)
So....I was wrong. I was sure we were having a girl. I was positive. I was wrong. We are having another boy.
I hope that we get to keep this one. ;-)
Andi
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