20 Weeks

So 20 weeks in and we have a confirmation of a happy, healthy little 12 ounce girl. If you project that out it is a 8 and 1/4 pound baby, so just a bit above average. If you click on the image below you should get a bigger version of the image so you can actually see stuff. Here is the layout of the six pictures:

[Heart Valves] [3D Face] [3D Face]
[2D Face (arrow below the lips)] [Arm Bones] [Spine]


Very neat stuff!

~Ian

More baby pics

Yeah, it's me again. Just another picture from the high-res ultrasound that Liz and I went to in the 14th week. It was a pretty neat experience all in all. We got to see the baby much clearer then before and she (that is the doctor's 70% guess, at 20 weeks we should be much more sure so we're not picking up any clothes before then ;-)) was really kicking around inside there. She would be chilling at the bottom and then every 60 seconds or so she would kick really hard and launch up to the top and then float down slowly back to the bottom. Apparently Liz and I are raising an X-Games gal. They don't show up very well on the scan, but you can see some neat stuff like cartilage forming in the nose and little knee and elbow joints. Also, this ultrasound was partially to check for possible issues and by all accounts our baby appears to be developing just fine.

~Ian

Alien!!!!

Alert Tom Cruise, Jeff Goldblum and Sigourney Weaver!

~Ian