Today I had my second doctors appointment. I used to work with my doctor and became pretty good friends with his staff so I know him well. He recently purchased a new fancy ultrasound machine that even does 4D pictures. He goes to a lot of trainings on how to use it and the cool stuff you can do with it. Last week he went to a training on 1st trimester screenings to detect abnormalities such as Downs Syndrome. He was really excited about it today and used me as his guinea pig. I'm not exactly sure what he did because he was using all sorts of fancy language but he did the sonogram and measured the babies spine. You also look at the nasal bone. He said everything looks fine. My doctor's working on getting certified to be able to offer this to all his patients and then will be able to send the pictures to specialists to analyze if he sees there may be a problem. I was just his test and he did it all for free. It's great having connections!
This 3D sonogram picture is cool, but it kind of looks funny. The babies head looks really big, but that's not all her head! You can see her little head looking down. I think it looks like she has a Pluto hat on or something. I don't know what that is, though.
This is just a 2D picture. It's still pretty cool. There's a lot of difference in the last 4 weeks. It was fun to watch the baby move. She is active! She kept on "bouncing" off the walls. It sure is a neat thing and I feel like Ryan and I are very blessed to have a little one coming to us.
