20 Week Ultrasound Pics

On March 26th, 2013, we went for the final and most exciting ultrasound: The Anatomy Ultrasound.

It takes over an hour and the technician takes over 100 pictures.  It's amazing what they can read and see on the grey, fuzzy screen.  Some of the pictures include the ventricles in the brain, the kidneys, and they can even screen for a cleft lip or palette.

The technician was great.  Warren could not come in for the first 45minutes while she took all of the necessary photos, but then he was able to join us for "just looking" and it was amazing.

I had no idea how big the baby was, but she had the wand of the ultrasound all over my belly and a couple of times she had to find the heart beat and even that location changed.  Once it was in the upper right corner, then the lower left.  Apparently the baby still has lots of room to swim.

The technicians are not allowed to give much information, since it's the doctors that communicate the results, but she did say, "everything looks perfect" so I'm going to go with that statement as good news.

Warren was amazed by the whole thing and I'm so glad he was able to be a part of it.  He was going to skip a call-in anyway, but it didn't even happen.

I don't have any photo editing software to point to what's going on in the pictures, but I'll try my best to describe it.

PHOTO #1: It's a side profile of the head and the round bump in front of the mouth is a hand.

PHOTO #2: Another side profile shot (opposite the first picture), however in this one you can see a full arm and the hand is in front of the nose again.  The elbow and knee are close together.  The foot is in the top left corner.

PHOTO #3: The baby is kind of turning away from the camera so the curved line at the bottom of the picture is the spine, and on the left side you can see the leg bent at the knee.  The white dot in the middle left of the head is the ear.

I was also told that the thickness between the inside of my uterus and the skin on my belly is about 3.5cm so therefore we'll be able to feel a lot of movement from the outside.  The other good news is that I have a really long cervix, and that means I have decreased chances of having an incompetent cervix and therefore less chance of being on bedrest.  My placenta is at the back as well, so that is also great news.

We're pretty excited with this ultrasound. Next visit with the OB is April 18th.