Tuesday, May 3, 2011

1st photo

People (mostly my mom) told me that ultasounds were awesome.
Doing IVF involves LOTS of ultrasounds. Like seriously, a dozen by this point I think. Most are just counting Mo's follicles and her uterine lining. Not that interesting but you know, kinda cool.

But this was different.

Now, I looked up what an ultrasound picture would look like (twins or singlet). When it popped up and looked like the singlet I was kinda shocked. I even said "Wow, only one?" The Doc said "Let's see" and moved stuff around a bunch, but yeah, unless the other one is a ninja (or very small and likely unhealthy), it's just one.

I was disappointed for about 8/10ths of a second. Then the nurse pointed out where you could see (not hear) the heartbeat.
brain did this.
I think I shook someones hand, they made a DVD of the still image. I took a photo of the screen. We got a physical copy. The Doctor and nurse were very happy and and said it looked big and healthy. Lots of smiling.

Mo was a little more disappointed to learn that another round of IVF is likely in our future. That sucks of course, but we will deal with it in time. We have at least a few years before that's an issue. If we do another round it should be before she turns 35, so we have plenty of time. She was pretty much over the disappointment by the time we went to bed.

We went out and registered at Target. We will likely go register at Wal Mart and Babies R Us too at some point.

For me, it finally feels real.

1 comment:

  1. I vote there's a ninja baby in there somewhere.
    -Beka

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