Healthy Baby!

Bean had a fairly long photoshoot today, but hasn't yet learned how to love the camera. Finding the left hand took quite a while - the tech kept measuring other things and coming back to the left side to try again. Shy kid. Actually, sleepy kid, sucking thumb with head against the placenta. A tummy-sleeper, like Mommy... or like Mommy would be, if there weren't a Bean in the way.

The good news is that there is no sign of anything wrong. All of the internal organs are the right size and shape, the heart is pumping away, all four chambers. Today's measurements, combined with the triple-screen bloodwork and the nuchal translucency ultrasound, have reduced the risks for trisomy 18 and spina bifida to less than .01%, and the risk of Down syndrome from 1/180 (simply given M.'s age) to 1/9600. So YAAAYYY for a healthy baby!

And no, we did not find out the sex. The ultrasound tech was really good, and had us look away as she checked the kidneys and leg bones. It cracked us up, because she looked a LOT like Amy Poehler, and we kept half-expecting something wacky to happen.

Pictures:

Profile and parts of the left arm. You can see nose, eyes and lips, esophagus and stomach.

Overshot the mouth, looking for the thumb. Either that, or thinking hard. I kinda enjoyed seeing the ribs, which are ossifying nicely.

As I mentioned before, sleepy kid using the placenta as a pillow. Bean was rocking to Mommy's breathing, so the picture blurred a little, but the tech was nice enough to switch on the 3-D ultrasound for a couple of minutes so that we could not only get the King Tut images of the 2-D, but the Bog Man as well! And note: Bean got Mummy's long fingers.