This is week 17, and according to our BabyCenter newsletter Baby is now 5 ounces and 5 inches. That seems huge! Last weekend Jess and Marie popped in a for a quick weekend visit, in the midst of a lot of travel for work. We lazed about and generally had a relaxed time, which was a welcome break from the hecticity of general life these days. Marie and Blossom did some maternity clothes shopping. They came home with a pretty good haul of stuff, just in time to accommodate Blossom’s expanding midsection.
Today Blossom and I went to Emerson Hospital to get our anatomic survey. Emerson is where we will be delivering, and Blossom signed up for the baby class and an exercise class. Later we’ll get to take a tour of the birthing center. Today Kate was manning the ultrasound and did a bang up job, although the picture on this rig was lousy. Baby got measured for all the bones and everything was normal. We saw the skull (creepy), the spine now with ribs, and all the extremities. Baby seems to be punching the skull in the first shot.
We saw some black spaces that we were told were organs. So in theory we saw the stomach, kidneys, and bladder. There was a neat false color she did over the kidneys to check the arteries. We spent a lot of time looking at the heart, watching the four chambers pulse and checking the aorta. Baby clocked in at 156 beats per minute, smack in the middle of the normal range.
As to the sex, Blossom and I decided to wait to find out. Kate said it was obvious what the sex was, and that we could find out anytime we wanted. But for now it remains a mystery.