BGB 20 Week Ultrasound

We went to the doctor on Monday and did our 20 week ultrasound for BGB. She is doing wonderfully and very healthy. She was moving a lot still but the technician said that was actually better because then we would be able to get all the shots we needed. BGB was practicing her dramatic gestures - back of hand against forehead - and generally wiggling all about. It was great fun to watch. 

Strong profile.

Strong foot, hand is the blob by the arrow, it's coming in...

Holding her foot with her hand.

First time ever I saw your face

We had another round of ultrasound on Tuesday to check on the growth of the baby.  Once again, it was all good news - he's the right size and shape, and he's even flipped to be head down since the last ultrasound (which is how he should be at this point).  In some of the previous ultrasounds, the tech had a little trouble tracking him down inside Emily's belly.  Not this time though - it's ALL baby in there!

Profile view using 2D ultrasound... it's tough to get a good view of him this way anymore now that he's so big

The regular ultrasounds are nice, but next was the really cool part.  Since the tech was able to get through her checklist pretty quickly and the baby was lying in a cooperative position for a change, she decided to take a few minutes to use the 3D probe to try and get a real picture of the baby's face.  It turned out way better than I expected it to... so incredible to see his little face for the first time.

Check after the jump to get a sneak preview of Baby Boy Basque's handsome face!

2.6 lbs strong (and growing)

As Emily said in her last post, we had another ultrasound last Thursday to check up on the baby's growth progress.  Everything was very positive, he's pretty much exactly in the range we want him to be.  The ultrasound tech said "this is one time it's good for him to be average."  He's actually a little bigger than we expected - 2.6 pounds already!

Ultrasound pics after the jump...

More Ultrasound Pics

And just to see how much he's grown already, these are the ultrasound pics from 8 weeks and 12 weeks:

8 weeks

12 weeks

Super-Mega-Ultrasound

First post!

Last week Emily and I went for our 20 week checkup with the doctor, where we had a chance to spend almost two hours checking out our baby with the ultrasound technician.  The tech found and measured all of the limbs and organs on her scavenger hunt list, and everything is present, in the correct place, and the expected size and proportions for 20 weeks.  During the other two ultrasounds we could see that *something* living was in there but it wasn't anything recognizable.  But this time it was very obviously a (human) baby, moving and wiggling around just like you'd expect a baby to do... it was really pretty incredible. 

Here are a couple of side views.  In the first one his knees are up by his chest (he's not stepping on Emily's bladder for a change) and you can see a little bit of his hand.  In the second one he has his mouth open and his hand up by his face.  Not long after the second picture was taken, he punched himself in the face and elbowed Emily in the side... I think he gets his coordination from his mom. :)
These two show a straight on view of his mouth and nose, with the rest of his head hidden in a pointy shadow.  He looks like a little hip-hop kid wearing a big hooded sweatshirt.  In the second one he's chewing on his hand, though the view is a little distorted so it's tough to make it out.

 Check after the jump for arms, legs and feet...