Had a little bit of a scare this morning and so they wanted to take a peek…Everything is fine and these are the most recent pics. I will say that I’m really done with having ultrasounds! I’m afraid Critter is going to grow a third arm soon.
I am fairly certain Doug has given me a giant baby. Both he and his sister were 9 pounders. Where as my brother and I were 6.8 and 7.2 respectavly. I will be 14 weeks tomorrow and am already showing. I shouldn’t be surprised because when we went for our genetic screening they said Critter [...]
If you want the full-size video you can download it here. I warn you that it’s a 200MB download, but it’s hosted on my ISP so hopefully it should download as fast as your connection allows. You’re going to want to right click and save the linked content to download the file. This won’t stream [...]
During the ultrasound I recorded it on my camera. Unfortunately I had to do it from across the room with my arm extended to get it as close as possible. This worked fairly well except when I had to change positions because my arm got tired. I edited out most of the critter searching and [...]
Critter is starting to look human here. You see it better when watching my recording of the ultrasound, but this is still pretty good. Also we learned that critter’ heart rate is now up in the mid-150s (normal). Nicole wasn’t as pleased to find out that critter is measuring one week larger than actual age.
This is critter’s heartbeat recorded at 11 weeks. It’s about 125 beats per minute which is normal for the age. Nicole thinks it sounds like a steam locomotive. critter heartbeat – 11 weeks
These two images are from an ultrasound performed at 7 weeks. Not much more than a blob, here, but we were able to see the heart beat.