20 weeks!

Sophie is 20 weeks tomorrow! Yesterday was my first ultrasound. I admit that I was very anxious and apprehensive because it would be Sophie's first checkup. When I was younger, I never thought I would have been such a worried mom. Robyn was our ultrasound technician. I am really grateful we had her because she was ultra-nice and very good at reading the pictures. She showed us the main body parts first like the head, body and legs. One of the first pictures was a snapshot of the bottom of Sophie's foot

My heart may have skipped a beat. It was a real foot!!!! It even looked like a foot. When Robyn showed us Sophie's face... it didn't look like a face... it looked like a skeleton baby.

Then Robyn showed us the bones, like the leg bones and arm bones and spine. I loved the position of Sophie's arms with one over her head and one near her mouth. It just seemed very fitting for a baby. When I was sleeping last night, I was thinking about how my sleeping position probably jostles the baby, like moving side to side. I can't imagine running a marathon pregnant.

The spine looks like the size of the body.

She said the baby was healthy in her development and a day off from her due date. Then she showed us her organs like kidney and stomach. Without her pointing them out, I would never have guessed they were the organs besides the heart because I could see that pumping. they just look like black and white spaces. She said that any black space was fluid. She showed us the placenta and said it was in the right place. thank goodness! Every time she told us about where something was suppose to be or suppose to be doing and Sophie was doing the right thing, I was so relieved and happy. She also showed us Sophie's bottom! She asked us what we thought the baby was? girl or boy? Well, I didn't see anything that would make the baby a boy so I guessed girl. And it was right! We are having a baby girl!

We also looked at the baby's heart. She let us hear the different heart beats of each ventricle or atrium. They were all so different. It was so cool to hear.

I was amazed how well this technology worked. It was really neat to see different angles and shots of the baby from Robyn's clicking of the computer. Like she showed us a bird's eye view of the baby. However, the prodding of her device was uncomfortable. She said that our baby was wild and very active because she was moving so much. She was constantly moving the device on my stomach to catch a shot because the baby would be moving all the time. At one point, we were trying to look at the brain from a downward angle to see the different lobes of the brain but Sophie was making it difficult because she was looking up instead of forward or to the side. Robyn said that there was some kind of unilateral cyst in her brain, but that it was normal for this stage of development because the brain is still developing. She said that if it was bilateral it would be more of a concern so she reassured us that it was fine, but that a doctor would call if it was a problem. at first that made me nervous, but considering all of the baby's developments and healthy status, I am just really grateful that Sophie is doing so good and healthy. I am even super proud of her high activity levels! Woohoo! thats our baby!!!!! Another funny thing, once Robyn knew that Josh knew anatomy and that he was going to med school, she amped up her simplified language and spoke quite anatomically. I was proud of my Josh. I can't wait for our little family to be... Our tres leches family!