18 week ultrasound

We had our 18 week ultrasound on July 22 and found out that we are having a girl! Here are some of the pictures. Instead of giving us the usual printout, they gave us the pictures burned on to a CD ROM.

here is her cute little butt - and a bent leg

Here she is laying on her back and you can see her legs bent.

Here is the front hald. She is laying on her stomach with her arm bent and hand touching her face.

Here is a view of her head. I am not sure of the angle of this one.

I believe this is just a measurement of the size of her head so far.

Here she is laying on her back with her nose pointed up towards the top.

And one last headshot.

These pictures were not as easy to see...for us anyway. Since she is bigger now, it is harder to get a picture of her entire body in one shot. So they have to take pictures of different segments of her body. The ultrasound was interesting. It lasted about 45 minutes. For the first half hour I was alone with the ultrasound tech. She didn't say much to me, just kept taking pictures. I think she took a little over 100 pictures in all. She then went to get Dennis so she could show us the baby together. During the ultrasound she was concerned that the baby would not roll over so she wasn't able to take pictures of her spine. Once Dennis came back in, she turned the ultrasound back on and there on the screen was her spine. So, we got lucky and we were able to finish the entire ultrasound that day. That was also when we found out it was a girl. Both Dennis and I thought it was a girl, but we had no reason for that guess. It was just a guess. So, since we were guessing it was a girl, we figured it would probably be a boy. Honestly, we didn't care one way or another. I think I'd like to have a boy someday too, but whatever God gives us, we will be happy with. We knew there was only one baby. So while we were excited it was a girl we were also a little disappointed it wasn't a boy. It was kind of a weird feeling. I am sure if it was a boy, we would have been disappointed it wasn't a girl as well. But the only way you can have both is with twins and we knew that wasn't the case ahead of time. We are anxious and excited about meeting our little girl and hope that one day we will be able to give her a sister or brother too!