Mommy to be Update June 15 2009

He looks like his Dad!

I love ultrasounds, like all out, over the moon, adore ultrasounds. Who ever thought there would be a machine invented which would allow someone to look inside someone else’s body and see something so important like a human growing? I have to look past the fact that everyone is looking at my uterus, however I have no problem showing the world that specific body part when you get to see a baby too! We had our third ultrasound today and despite feeling a little under the weather it was a joy! Our ultrasound technician was pretty goofy and joked with us the entire time – my kind of technician! Side note, ladies, did you know that the yak snot they goop onto your belly really has a purpose and is not there to just gross you out??? It actually allows the sound waves to travel into you body. I’m sure most everyone knew that but it was something I didn’t know and thought was kind of cool.

Alright…back to the important stuff! This was our second ultrasound to look at the little man’s bones to see how they are progressing. As soon as the little tool thing-a-ma-bobber touched my stomach the screen lit up with our son in, well, all his glory. Warning: the next bit of information will include sensitive material, so anyone under the age of 13 should go through health class before reading. I am so proud of our little guy…and he was definitely proud of his little guy! So, much to the chagrin of Grandma Maurer who desperately wanted a granddaughter, he is definitely a boy…no doubt. The technician then explained to us that they so gracefully refer to this in their textbooks as the turtle sign. All his boy parts put together on the screen kind of looking like a turtle in black and white. Use your imagination on this one folks…I thought that was pretty much the funniest thing.

Ok, now all of you sensitive folks can resume reading. Grigg has successfully flipped and is in the head down position…prepared for take off. People say that you can feel when they flip and honestly I don’t recall a specific time that I know he flipped…but let me tell you since he is getting bigger the movements are not just the cute mini kicks and bumps. They are the full out summersaults and karate chops of a black belt Martial-Artist. Maybe he isn’t the hockey player I was hoping for but maybe the next Bruce Lee…or my luck Chuck Norris. Anyways, I digress. He’s in launch mode and being the overachiever that I am, I have cooked him 2 whole days ahead of schedule! What a good little man…must be all that spaghetti and potato chips!

So, the important stuff…all the organs look fantastic and his heart is beating at 140! Way to go buddy. He is 4 pounds and 1 ounce and like I said before about 2 days ahead of schedule. As he gets bigger and bigger it is harder to see everything, however the bone report is GOOD! All of his larger bones are straight and calcified perfectly. When looking at the spine we were only able to see half of it…which is what we want. If you could see the entire spine from front to back that would be a bad sign that things are not calcifying properly! So, we are very happy to report NO FRACTURES to be seen! The doctor said we have a very healthy boy. And last but not least, there is no doubt that this little man is his father’s son. After all the big head jokes, we have formal and official news that his head is….”fairly decent sized” as our technician put it. We didn’t get a measurement but she was pretty impressed and said he has a large head. (Oh so excited about that!)

Check out the photos below…all you skeptics who thought we would never get around to posting them! The ultrasound pictures are great and you can even kind of see his face. Chubby Cheeks is all I can say about that.