4D Ultrasound!

Today we had our 4D ultrasound! It was SOOOO amazing! Connor was very cooperative! Before you look at them, let me explain what's on his head :) I have lots of pictures of his face, but I have an anterior placenta, which means he basically uses the placenta as a pillow as it's in front of his face. So the tech had to move around and do her best to get pictures of his face sans placenta :) So- when you see his face, he does not have some weird growth on the right side toward the top - that's just the placenta :)

This first one is just a profile picture of him and his heart rate, which was 145! You can see his little fist to the left!

Ok - so, like I said, placenta looks like it's growing off of his head. But if you look closely, you can see his little nose, his eyes, and his lips. And his two little hands right under his chin - he sat this way the entire time...deep in thought!!

Here's another - same thing with the placenta. Look at the middle of the picture and you'll see his little nose and his lips right under his nose and his eyes on the sides of his nose :)

This one shows a hole on his forehead, but that's just from the way that the sonogram "sliced his image" don't worry he does not have a hole in his forehead!! Again you can see the placenta coming off his head to the upper right.

In the middle of this picture, you can see his two little legs and feet. He has them stretched out and is rubbing them together - this is really neat because he does this every night while I'm trying to go to sleep and in the middle of the night if I wake up... this is something that his daddy does every night when HE'S trying to go to sleep - very cute!

Here you can see a lot of the placenta (to the right) but to the left, you can see Connor's face - his nose and his forehead and eyes and mouth and his little arm is up by his chin...

Here is his face with the placenta to the right - no, his eye's not drooping - Jason asked the tech this - it's because he's smooshed up against the placenta that his little eye looks distorted.

Same thing here - see his hand under his chin...

Same thing here - he's got beautiful full lips!!!

Same thing - different picture :)

Same thing - extra placenta here to the right - but you can see a good shot of his little eyes, nose and mouth - his nose looks spread out too - it's because it's smooshed!

Same thing here - see his little hand at the bottom? He's got only his pointer and thumb and little finger up like he's signing "I love you" :)

Very exciting stuff, folks! And for those of you who are not so good with sonograms - I'm sorry you probably have NO CLUE what you're looking at - next time I see you, I'll explain!

The doctor's visit went well and the good news is that I don't have to go back next week! I go back the following week for my 32 week checkup and we have another ultrasound to find out how big Connor is! He's head down now and hopefully he'll stay that way for a little while!

My BP was great and somehow I lost 2 pounds and have only gained 17 pounds to date! WOO HOO!

Have a great week!

The Ratliffs