3D/4D Ultrasound

This morning we had an appointment at the Moore Norman Vo-Tech to have a 3D/4D ultrasound done. I have been waiting for this day forever it seems! The school has a program where you pay only $10 and a student in training performs the ultrasound on you for practice. This is a great deal if you can get an appointment. The student tech told us that most babies only cooperate about 25% of the time. Most of the time expecting parents leave with little to nothing because the baby is facing the wrong way or somehow has their face blocked.

So getting started, the first thing we noticed... Brooklyn had her hands covering her face. No joke! She is SO stubborn and ornery. She had one hand by her mouth, which we think she was sucking on her thumb, and then the other just up by her face. We tried for about 10 minutes to get her to move around and move her hands away from her face so we could get a clear picture of the front of her face. She wouldn't have it. So most of our pictures are ones with her hands blocking her face.

We also had the student tech check to make triple sure it was a girl. She looked and sure enough, Brooklyn is definitely all girl. So now Dale and I can start making our the baby registries! I am trying to talk him into doing that this weekend. ;o)

So after checking the gender again, and having me move on one side, then to my back, then to my other side, then back to my back again, we made Brooklyn mad! Dale got to see her kick on the monitor, which he thought was pretty cool. We also got to see for a short second, Brooklyn opening and closing her mouth. She got the hiccups for a few seconds.

Then, tired of us pushing her around and trying to move her all about, she decided she was done. Brooklyn took her hands away from her face, and then turned and faced my back so we couldn't get a clear shot of her face at all!! All we could see is her spine and the back of her head! The student tech worked around her a little bit and we have a couple of good side profile pictures of Brooklyn without her hands in her face, but that is it.

So from the side profile pictures, I am thinking she has Dale's facial features. It looks like she has chubby checks and dimples and his nose. Dale is afraid she doesn't have a chin, but I think she does. I also think she has big eyes, but those would be from me. I've thought she was going to look like Dale since the last ultrasound though. Her head is perfectly round too. According to Grandma Belinda, Dale's head was perfectly round.

When it comes to the rest of her, she has features that I can definitely see my influence. Her hands for instance... Brooklyn's fingers are SO long. Her hands in all the pictures look huge. She also has big feet, though she could have gotten that from me or her daddy. She looks long and slender though. Unless she starts gaining a lot of weight soon, I think she is going to just be skinny and long when she is born.

The student tech took the measurements of her head and all her bones and said that from the measurements, she is currently 2 pounds 7 ounces. They said that from her size they think I am about 27 weeks and 3 days along and they showed my due date to be December 23rd! They told me to stick with the date that Dr. Fletcher has given me though.

Brooklyn is perfectly healthy though. She is growing at the right rate and has all her long fingers and toes and has become VERY good at moving around! We have about 8 pictures or so from this ultrasound. As soon as I can get Dale to scan the pictures, I will have them posted here on the blog. I will try to get that done by tomorrow evening or this weekend at the latest so keep checking back!

Love,
Jennifer