I may have mentioned this before, but this little girl has already had more than twice as many ultrasounds as Clara did! Let's see... There was the regular 9 week ultrasound, then at the next Dr. appt they couldn't find the heartbeat on the doppler so she got another ultrasound, then there was the ER visit a few weeks later, and the regular 20 week ultrasound where we found out she was a girl, but also couldn't see all four chambers of her heart because she was in a bad position, so this fifth and (most likely) final ultrasound was ordered for my 28 week appointment to double check on her heart, even though they weren't terribly worried because she wasn't showing any other growth problems that would come with a heart defect.
Well, yesterday was the day! My mom came with me this time and kept me company during the big long glucose test (nasty orange drink! Ugh!) but the time goes by much faster when you get to have an ultrasound in the middle of the test. The ultrasound revealed that her heart looks perfectly normal (phew!) and that she's actually measuring 5 days bigger than her due date, which I think is funny because at 20 weeks she measured about 5 days smaller. It must be all the ice cream I've been eating. ;-) When I called Dennis on the phone to tell him that she did indeed have a heart he replied, "Oh good, she's not a banker then!" Silly banker humor...
She had both her arms up in front of her face, as well as one of her legs. The other leg was tucked in behind her like in the picture below (you can see her bottom on the top right, her knee down at the bottom, and her foot on the top left...) I guess she's practicing for hurdles.
So not much by way of pictures. She was crammed in there pretty good, and we're only going to get more squished! "Full term" is in 9 weeks, one week past the due date in 13... So just two to three more months left. It's pretty crazy to think about.
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