at 10 weeks, this was our first glimpse of all those limbs and and nascent spine, all curled up like a leaf. It was only at this point that I really believed that I was growing a little human.
the next scan, at 20 weeks, we saw four chambers of his heart, pulsing. his bare feet swooped in on the monitor, and were gone. we saw a tiny black dot: his full bladder, and a full belly. the two parts of his brain, and the delicious mound of belly.
even though we had asked not to be told whether 'it' was a boy or a girl, I couldn't resist asking the sonographer if she had seen - I think I wanted to deduce something from her eyes. but she smiled, and looked away...
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