new d'amato well underway
Well, we went for another ultrasound yesterday and spent 40 minutes looking at the baby. As medical procedures go this is pretty low-impact. The scariest part was when the tech squeezed blue goo on the maternal belly. It looked cold. But it turns out I was worried for no reason, the goo sits in a warming device in between customers. Would be good for shaving cream too I bet.
Short version: everything looks normal except the baby is a little big for his age. Still looking at a due date of about October 4. Oh yeah, and he's definitely a boy.
What they can do with the technology is kind of amazing. There was a lot of looking at the heart. You could see all four chambers pumping and the valves opening and closing. There was a doppler-shift function where all the blood coming at you was colored blue and moving away was red. Pretty amazing combination of physics and biology. (I think a lot in terms of lesson plans these days.)
It was an emotional experience but maybe not as acute as last time. I think we are starting to get used to having him around. That's intense in a different way.
2 comments:
Beautiful pictures man.
And beautiful though the experience was, it seems proper somehow that for every group stood looking on going 'ahh' theres some techie in the background saying. 'But look at the cool doppler shift function, neat!'
Glad you guys are both well.
That's wonderful, thank you for sharing it. I've gone a bit weepy :).
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