Technology is really amazing. I don't think my mom would have thought when she was pregnant with me that one day people would be able to see their babies in real live 4d imaging. Shoot, I think she was lucky if she got a grainy ultrasound.
The place where we had AJ and Dos's (as we are calling him--dos as in 2 in spanish) 20 week ultrasounds offers a free 28-30 4d study (we are a little over 29 weeks). It is so amazing to see your baby on the screen like that. I can't even explain it. The photos and videos below do it no justice really.
We brought AJ with us and he was so excited to see his brother. Oh, we also confirmed for sure that it is a boy--we saw all of his glory today! We also learned he is already head down (YEAH!) and got to see him open and close his eyes, smile, stick out his tongue, open and close his mouth, and saw the other beautiful parts of his body.
Now 4d imaging probably has some improvement to endure. It has already made improvement in the three years since we had AJ's. Today we got there and my bladder was slightly too full, causing him to be pushed up against the uterine wall and thus created blurry pictures. Then he had his feet, hands, and umbilical cord covering his face. With some taunting by the tech and some flipping and movement by me, we were able to get him to move his feet and hands most of the time, but the cord hung out. When the cord is covering the face, it causes distortion to the body parts it covers. Also, the ultrasound wand pressure causes 'bubbles' to the area it's hitting--so in all photos there is some sort of distortion. Some of you will think it's scary, but some of you will find that it's really a cool and amazing thing to see. I was blown away as I was able to learn quickly what everything was.
So first thing is first, let's compare AJ to Dos. The major difference in the photos below is that AJ's eyes are open and Dos's are closed. But, you can see that they look very similar (or maybe you don't see that, but we do!). I think that AJ and Dos have the same nose, eye shape, and face shape. The lips are a little fuller in Dos. John thinks the forehead shape is different. We are making these assumptions based on multiple photos and live imaging we saw today. It will be really interesting on how it really turns out!
AJ circa over three years ago:
Our second son:
I show this photo because it reminds me of a Sleeping Baby AJ. I also felt like they were similar in a lot of ways--facial expression wise.
Now on to some exciting videos! Here is the first of three:
This photo is amazing because it shows his little hand (he has 5 fingers!)
In this one, you will see him open his mouth, a little tongue, a smile, and him open and close it.
So a very amazing day--and now I'm SO excited and ready to meet my little baby boy. I can't wait to snuggle with him, to have him wrap his little hands around my finger (and he will have me wrapped around his finger just like AJ does), to nurse and look into his eyes, to hear him coo, to watch AJ interact with him...I'm just so looking forward to it.
Oh and in just to bring me down to earth for a minute, I thought I would remind myself of not only how I looked in the first few weeks after AJ, but how tired I was as well. Ok, nevermind, I'm back on cloud 9 thinking of those days and how amazing it was to snuggle with such a precious little thing (and now emotional thinking of how fast time flies):
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