Ultrasound #1

On Wednesday, Jonathan and I went to the Women's Imaging center to have our first detailed ultrasound. We got to watch our two little ones on the screen for at least 30 minutes! It was so great. Everything looks good and we even have an educated guess on gender!

Both babies are 3 oz. and about 7.5 cm in length. I guess that's good! Both are measuring right about where they should for 13 weeks and 3 days. Heartbeats were normal, I think 154 and 146... something like that. I wish I'd had her write that down for me.

Apparently, Baby A looks very DIFFERENT from Baby B between the legs... Baby A's area looking "pronounced". So the technician made an educated guess that we will soon have one baby boy and one baby girl. Nothing could make me happier :) I guess we will find out in a few weeks if she was right.

On a side-note, my ovaries are beautiful? I didn't know that was relevant, but apparently it is.

I was so happy to get the pictures to keep also. We got 12 photos, 6 of each little one. Different little poses also, so we can see different parts of them developed. Saw ribs and spines and heads and brains. It was great. Some stuff, I couldn't see... but she said it was there, so that's fine by me. Jonathan was beside himself. I kind of knew what to expect, but I think he was amazed. He also wasn't feeling his greatest that day. He had something stuck in his eye, and we actually went to the Urgent Care place on our way out of the medical center so he could see a doctor. They had to dig it out with a needle :( He wasn't very happy about that, but at least he got the thing out!

I showed off my belly last night and even got two belly rubs. Made me feel weird, but whatever. It's the only time people are going to rub my belly, so why not let them if they feel so compelled? I don't care. Haha. We got to show off our first baby photos as well, which is fun for us. The other people probably don't care that much, but that's okay. Some people we know didn't know I was pregnant yet. They could tell by my belly last night, though. It's sticking out there haha.

We have another appointment on July 27th... a Monday. I'll be 16 weeks. I don't know that they'll do another ultrasound then to see if we can find out the genders, but I'm still excited to get back to the doctor. I think it reassures me and helps me feel like this is REAL. What also helps is looking at baby stuff online ;)

My Babies at 13 weeks, 3 days:

Baby A:



Baby B:


My belly at 14 weeks: