[geeks] baby stuff

[kamakazi]

For my first baby (yes, it's my baby, even though my wife did all the
work) we went for an early US, because of a previous miscarriage, so we
got to see the lima bean stage, and yeah, that heart beating is really
cool.  The "normal" time ultrasound video tape got labeled "Lima bean
turns Alien".

I'm rather good at catastrophizing, so going to an ultrasound session
and seeing a nromal baby on schedule is one of the happiest days of my
life, every time, and both our kids ended up with two.

OK, I'll shut up, I know when it comes to kids I go on and on and on
an....

Tim  

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 00:18:35 -0500
"Jennifer Sharp" <jensharp at psychoses.org> wrote:

> Both showed normal
> pregnancies but the coolest damned thing was seeing the little heart
> beating for the first time. I was laying there trying not to pee all
> over the ultrasound tech when James says "COOL!" so I looked up and we
> saw it's little heart beating. The second one we saw it wiggling
> around in there and it had little toes and fingers. We got no pic that
> time tho. :( I had a doc appt today and it is always so cool to hear
> its little heart beating ten thousand miles an hour.