21 Week 5 Day Ultrasound

Our little baby Sprout is growing so quickly no wonder I wake up every morning with a bigger and better baby bump! Three weeks ago our daughter was weighing in at 3oz total body weight, and today she is a whopping 1lbs 3oz. Michael was by my side today as we went for our “do-over” 20 weeks ultrasound and hoped that this time she was going to be in a little better position for us to see her. Last time we enjoyed staring at her back through the entire exam, but this time it was nice that we got some different views of Sprout. We even were lucky enough to score a couple of extra photos before leaving the office. First thing, our ultrasound technician made sure we got some of those precious profile snapshots every parent hopes for and then we went on to take photos of the rest of her anatomy. While sprout was posing for the cameras we got a beautiful photo of her face while she’s waving hello. I tell you, she’s going to love all of the photos we take of her when she is born! Next up was a full body shot where Sprout decided to fling her butt up in the air and show off those cute legs (or at least one cute leg). Shortly after we snapped this 2nd awesome photo, Michael and I watched as Sprout started to play with her legs by grabbing on to them and swinging them up in the air. It was right at this “spred-em” pose that we received confirmation that Sprout is still a girl. Whew! To be honest, I was wondering if some extra body parts were going to show up that maybe our technician missed. So glad we can stick with our current girly themes!

Some other interesting facts: her heartbeat was a quick 136 beats per minutes and per the computer generated information, her estimated due date is June 1st, 2010. THIS HAS NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY CHANGED BY OUR BABY DR YET.  It was merely an automatic data feed from the computer that will help the dr make her assessment during our next visit. It is interesting to see that her due date is bouncing all around. Safe thing to say is that she’ll be here in early June. Haha!

Up next is our baby doctor visit on 2/8/10 which will just entail our routine checkup.