We had our first trimester screening this week and I had my first proud moment. The little bugger wouldn't sit still for the camera. He was bouncing up and down - at times it looked like he was doing a jig - moving his arms and legs spastically. Let's hope s/he gets a little more rhythm when it joins this world.
The technician was pretty annoyed and continued to jiggle my stomach to try to calm it down. It eventually did and we wrapped up the test pretty quickly.
During the test - which consisted of an ultrasound where the technician takes various measurements - she used a different x-ray wand on my belly and was able to magnify inside the baby's cave. She took close up shots of its face and showed me where the umbilical cord fed into it. She was going to show me more, but I pleaded with her to turn away the screen. It looked like an alien and I tell you those images have haunted my waking hours as well as my sleeping ones.
I'm all for doing whatever tests they need to do to get as much info as they possibly need. But, no one should see such scary ugliness. Mr. Oh, with his stronger stomach and luck of being spared the curse of nightmares, was also a little wigged out by the images and continued to ask "Is that normal?"
She gave us print outs of all the alien-like pictures. At first, I was going to toss them out, but I decided to keep them hidden for now. Who knows, one day I may get nostalgic and wish my child looked again like a freaky sideshow fit for a Star Trek convention!?
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