Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I went for our first sonogram to make sure that this wasn't an intopic (sp?) pregnancy.
Everything was fine and on the screen we saw this little speck, just a dot, that is the baby. Two lives, 35 years apiece, all of our accomplishments, our experiences go into making this tiny dot that's probably smaller than a lima bean. Something so very, very small. And we couldn't be prouder.
I can't wait to find out who is in there, who that little dot is. I look at the picture and marvel at how there is so much life, so much potential, so much worry and wonder. All in just a little, tiny speck. I'm thrilled and terrified, I'm excited and worried. I'm humbled and exalted.
And I wonder how anyone, after experiencing this singular moment can detach themself from reality and decide that it doesn't matter, that a simple medical procedure could end it all, snuff out all of those possibilities and go on with life.
I've heard scientists, teachers and folks with a beer in hand explain how at one time, billions and billions of years ago, the Universe was just a tiny little speck, a dot filled with nothing and everything. And then, once upon a time, it just grew and grew, making everything we've known and everything we'll learn.
And here, nestled in my wife's womb,it plays out again on a much smaller stage, but one no less important to me and my life. Everything from nothing, from potential to permanence, from hope to happening.
And I wonder,what if billions of years ago someone had aborted the Big Bang because of how complicated it would make everything.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
Congratulations on your precious new lima bean!
Rain
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
ectopic, I believe.
Glad everything is well! Congratulations and good wishes for the 9 months to come!
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Glad to hear all is well... Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Yay! That's so great! Just wait til your lima bean gets buds....you'll want pictures of that. Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
It almost certainly has them already, Psi... they're just not visible on an ordinary sonogram at this stage... how far along Sopwith?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Excellent. Save them for the baby album.
"Doesn't he look just like Uncle George in this picture?"
Dagonee P.S., I liked the greater message here as well.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
We're at just over six weeks and we'll go in for the anatomy sonogram on my birthday.
Up until yesterday, we were referring to the baby as "Junior."
Now, we call her "Dot".
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
LOL
We called our first "The Sprout." My mother called him "rosebud" even after we found out it was a boy. Go figger.
Congrats in a a big way, man. Babies change everything. Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Aw, that's adorable. Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Congrats! Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I called our daughter "our little peanut" after her first ultrasound. It was such an amazing and wonderful thing to see that little heart beating. I look at my beautiful little three-year-old daughter now and remember that moment when I first heard her and saw her.
Congratulations, Sopwith!
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Did everybody get an ultrasound that early on. I got my first one four or five months in.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
PSI, different doctors have very different policies about ultrasounds. Also, the AMA's recommendations changed about *thinks* well, more than 5 years ago, because it was before I was pregnant with child #3.
With my first kid, I was part of an NIH study -- lots of ultrasounds, and with what was then cutting-edge technology, which showed blood flow and stuff.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Our doctor for our first child had a policy of doing the first ultrasound at 8 weeks, and having at least two more before birth. It was a good thing, too, because the later ultrasound revealed that our daughter had low fluid, and we were able to take some precautionary measures.
Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
My doctors recommended against multiple ultrasounds because of some research showed lower birth weights of babies who had multiple ultrasounds. Consequently, I only had the one around 14 weeks. I think it really does depend on your doctor.
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I got my first one four or five months in.