Today has been a day Joseph and I have been looking forward to for a long time. Today was finally the day of my first ultrasound! I was all excited and nervous walking into the office, hoping for the best and expecting the worst. I probably shouldn't expect the worst but I seem to handle bad news better if I've prepared for it a bit. Alas, my attempts to prepare for the worst news possible were in vain, because it was all wonderful. Not only was the jelly warm that the nurse so abundantly sprayed all over my belly, but I got to see my beautiful little baby! It was strange to think that the child on the screen I was looking at was mine and Joseph's, but it really hit me when I could feel the baby move or kick around and see it moving and kicking on the screen! I suppose I'm having a hard time believing that there is another person inside of me. And I can only imagine Joseph thinking, freaked out, to himself whenever I grab his hand and put it on my stomach for him to feel the baby "There is something inside of Abby that isn't Abby" but as soon as that baby flashed on the screen I could see on his face such happiness. Happiness that came in the form of my favorite smile on Joseph's wonderful face. Could I be so lucky that this man sitting next to me is my husband - my eternal companion and the father of the child I am growing?? I still can't believe how blessed I am.
Back to our baby.. first of all, baby is very healthy. Everything is growing the way it should grow and looks the way it should look. We saw it's brain, face, arms, belly, legs, heart, kidneys, stomach and feet!! Oh yes, we also got a good look between it's legs... AND our little baby is a little girl!! It's funny though, before I went in I was majorly concerned with finding out the gender, but as soon as we were actually looking at the baby it didn't really seem to matter that much. All I really wanted was for the baby to be healthy. I realized just how much could go wrong. The nurse measured and checked all of these things to make sure the baby was growing properly. I just can't grasp how blessed we are to have a perfectly healthy babe. A babe that will make Joseph a father, and me a mother.
Her face. You can see where her two little eye sockets and nose are. Even though she's pretty much a skeleton and skin right now she's absolutely beautiful.
Her little feet! One is just behind the other. They look pretty big so I assume she's going to have awesome balance. ...Or she'll trip over her huge feet all the time.
If I EVEN need to say it, this is a photo of her bum and legs. The itty-bitty arrow is pointing at the "proof of gender," yep it looks like a girl to me.
