Baby’s First Picture

We had our second visit to the the doctor today, and as expected, we received our first ultrasound scan of our baby!

If you don’t quite get how to read this scanned image, you might want to click on picture to enlarge the image itself.  Once magnified, you should be able to see 2 “ + “ signs in the middle of the image.  You might even be able to see the dotted line in between the 2 ‘ + ‘ signs.  Basically, everything in between the 2 ‘ + ‘ signs is the fetus. 

Out of curiosity, I went back to our Golden Little Piggy site to see how did those ‘scans’ came along right around the same stage.  I was surprised to see that Addison’s second scan was taken at exactly the stage as this scan.  If you look to the left of this image above, you’ll see it states that the baby is ‘9W1D +/- 5’ old.  What it means is that the baby is 9 Weeks and 1 Day old, with a margin or error of plus or minus 5 days.  Now if you look back at Addison’s second scan here, you’ll see the same ‘9W1D +/- 5’ on the left side of the scan! 

Very interesting!

Anyway, Dr. Chen didn’t have anything specific to say, except to tell Amy not to stand too much.  Otherwise, he pretty much left it to us to ask him questions.  Since Amy’s morning sickness is NOT limited to the mornings, and more like 24/7 instead, we asked Dr. Chen to prescribe some medication to help Amy feel better. 

Other than that, our meeting was rather short, and we left with a great picture of our ‘second one!’