Today was our second ultrasound, what an awesome experience. For those ultrasound virgins, it's about an hour long and involves watching a 10"x10", difficult to interpret, black & white display. The technician points out the head, spine, limbs, beating heart and much more, plus ours mentioned about a million times that our baby is quite active (I guess it's better than having a lazy baby).
In Halifax, the hospitals will not reveal the baby's sex (not that we wanted to know) nor will they give you a picture to take home, but you can pay about $100 for it at a private clinic. After recieving a pre-ultrasound letter politely informing us of these facts, I figured I knew better. We brought along our Sony digital camera and Yvette turned off the sound and flash, of course. I turned it on and left it in my pocket until an opportunity presented itself. Like an 80's era spy I snapped dozens of photos, extremely proud of my attempt to beat the system until I reviewed my handy work. As you can see no magazine will be purchasing my blurry, blob photos, which I will inform you all is not what our child looks like.
After a very long afternoon it was amazing that I could actually see our baby's heart beating and see it move on the screen. My pregnancy highlight so far.
Alex
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Hey Alex and Yvette,
First of all long time no talk Considine!! It's Ann from high school. Congrats on the baby! I am 15 weeks pregnant myself and like you my hubbies highlight was seeing the baby move, the heart beat, brain, spine etc. How far along is your wife?
How is life in general? I looked at your facebook profile and it looks like you have had quite the life since high school. Drop me a line if you want at annmac77@hotmail.com
Ann Daws (nee MacDonald)
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