Is it a bird? Is it a badger?

[j4]

I reckon it's more predator than alien. That may not be the most flattering photo. But the detail visible in the scan was really amazing (that one doesn't really do it justice) -- we could see all four chambers of the actual beating heart actually beating, every bone in the spine, tiny feet with even more tiny toes kicking, tiny hands reaching out in their first miraculous attempts to punch mum from the inside... :-}

Fortunately, it's also apparently just the right size, in the right place, & with all the right bits functioning as expected. And moving about all over the place. And if you do want to know: it's a girl!

I promise that not all my posts this month will be about babies, honestly. I am still thinking other thinks. But it is quite new and exciting having a small person living inside me.

Comments

[emperor]

Ooh, I new it'd be a girl!

that's a flagrant lie, but maybe no-one will notice

[jinty]

Oooh, cool! Have fun thinking of names with the wave-form newly collapsed...

[juliet]

I was wondering, so am pleased you shared :) (I am fundamentally nosy :) ). Cool!

The heart beat with all four chambers is *awesome*, isn't it? That was I think my favourite bit of A's scan. My other favourite bit was, for some reason, seeing the arm bones. I think because I could actually recognise them before they were pointed out :) The radiographer kept pointing out the face which I found far less interesting, oops. (I mean, you get to see their face when they're born. You won't get to see their BONES AND INTERNAL ORGANS then!) (Also, I assume my heart looks rather like that but bigger, which is rather cool.)

Glad that all is well :)

[taimatsu]

Awesome brilliant wonderful fabulous! Hurray! Baby!

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, I'm going to be hanging around Oxford a lot in the next three years or so, and apparently the park we found is near your house (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~kjwatson/October10.html), so if you'd like to meet up, that would be nice. Also, I can offer more practical babysitting/washing up help if that wouldn't make you feel self-conscious.

Hurray for spines and toes and everything working!

[k425.livejournal.com]

Excitement!

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

OMG!

Level zero human!

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's wonderful :-) I really thought it would be a boy, mostly because I have a boy and everyone is just the same as me, aren't they? :-)

[lnr]

*squee* *hug*

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

How lovely that everything is functioning as it should !!!

Very very squee indeed... :-D

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

I meant to say I love the big cheesy grin... In the scan, woman! Hope to see you for lunch eftsoons and can grin-comparison at that time.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Science is magic! Biology especially.