We had our first “diagnostic” ultrasound today. I must admit I was a little spooked by the whole experience. The ultrasound tech was very nice, (she was expecting her second in July) and answered most of Karen’s highly technical “doctor speak” questions.
However she was concentrating very hard. I guess our new baby girl was not in a very good position for the tech to take all the diagnostic pictures she needed to take. It took much longer than I thought and I kept thinking, “Is that normal? Gosh seeing the spine, skeleton, kidneys, brain, etc, etc, etc seems awfully spooky. Wait… why is the tech concentrating on the heart?!?” Anyway my fears were allayed when the ultrasound doctor came in to discuss the results. He said the baby looked healthy, Karen was about 18 weeks along, and we are going to have a baby girl. (I am so excitied, I wanted a girl quite badly). As a bonus we have a video tape of the whole thing, so I can digitize it and share the whole spooky thing as a Quicktime movie once I can find the time to encode it.