- Thu, Aug 18, 2005 /
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After much anticipation, we finally got to see our little piglet yesterday! According to the doctors, we have a perfect healthy baby. He/she was beautiful and we didn't want to leave the ultrasound room. If we could just watch all the time, we would :) He/she was very active and stubborn (imagine that) during the ultrasound. As soon as the ultrasound tech started looking at the baby, he/she started putting its legs and arms up and rolled around. It was also puckering up and blowing bubbles in the amniotic fluid. It seems to be quite an active baby. We were trying to look at the heart and it kept moving and putting its hands and legs in the picture. So, she decided to move on to the other critical organs...we saw the bladder, liver, stomach, and brain. Everything looked really good. As she started looking at the spine, she realized the baby was finally giving a good view of the heart, which is also perfect! We finished with another look at the brain and spine, which were still looking good.
The tech finished by giving us some really good shots of his/her profile for us to take home with us. We will hopefully scan these in this weekend. I thought piglet had Colin's nose and lips when we zoomed in on the nasal cavity...but we will see with time if I am right.
Some of the other good details were that my ultrasound was measuring me to be closer to January 10th than January 18th. The legs measured January 5th!! The ultrasound tech thought I was somewhere between 19 and 20 weeks. I didn't see my doctor after the appointment, I saw one of the other ladies in the practice and she didn't want to move the date without talking to my doctor but admitted after measuring and feeling my uterus that it felt like a 20 week uterus...so I will be discussing this with my doctor on September 13th. Neither one of us can remember how long piglet was, but piglet weighed a little over 9 ounces. And last but not least, the heart rate was 153 bpm. According to my doctor, the normal range is 120 to 160 and it will probably fluctuate througout the pregnancy.
Well, I think that is all for now. I am feeling piglet move all the time now and it is awesome. I started feeling him/her about 2 weeks ago and it gets stronger every day. I will be posting another belly picture this weekend and there will be a dramatic difference from 2 weeks ago. Colin and Grandma Susie will be painting the nursery on Sunday, so we may have some pictures of that too! Talk to you soon :)
Stacy, Colin & piglet