Anatomy Scan
Jun. 7th, 2016 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngWe had the long-awaited anatomy scan yesterday for Lady Jr. In short, this is where you see your baby-shaped baby for the first/last time before birth, and this is also where bones get measured, hearts get checked, and the overall health is assessed. If you didn't opt for an earlier genetics test (done by blood draw), like us, then this is the first chance to see if everything is going right and to see what gender baby will be assigned at birth.
We decided to forego the genetics test because a) our insurance doesn't really cover it and b) I'm under 35 and otherwise not considered high risk. I also just didn't want to do it for a handful of selfish, cowardly reasons.
So I was a liiittle nervous before the scan because what if?? but not very. Then the doc began pointing out organs and limbs and with each successive, completely normal reveal, I grinned a little more. In short, Lady Jr is 100% normal with all of their organs inside and in the right place and all of the appropriate number of limbs and nothing odd or worrying showing up.
I am so relieved. I am also a little bit bowled over by how much more baby-like Lady Jr is from the clump of cells we saw at 7 weeks.
We also found out baby's most probable birth gender: girl!
I didn't think having a pronoun to use would change anything, but calling Lady Jr she instead of it is surprisingly humanizing and makes this so much more real. Also we get to start trying out names which is fun. :)
We decided to forego the genetics test because a) our insurance doesn't really cover it and b) I'm under 35 and otherwise not considered high risk. I also just didn't want to do it for a handful of selfish, cowardly reasons.
So I was a liiittle nervous before the scan because what if?? but not very. Then the doc began pointing out organs and limbs and with each successive, completely normal reveal, I grinned a little more. In short, Lady Jr is 100% normal with all of their organs inside and in the right place and all of the appropriate number of limbs and nothing odd or worrying showing up.
I am so relieved. I am also a little bit bowled over by how much more baby-like Lady Jr is from the clump of cells we saw at 7 weeks.
We also found out baby's most probable birth gender: girl!
I didn't think having a pronoun to use would change anything, but calling Lady Jr she instead of it is surprisingly humanizing and makes this so much more real. Also we get to start trying out names which is fun. :)
