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This is the most beautiful profile I have ever seen:

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It was amazing. Sarah and I figured it would take the RN a minute or two to locate and orient the Wee Little One, but as soon as she placed the ultrasound on Sarah’s belly – whamo – there it was, posing in the nice profile you see.

Of course that was all the co-operation we got out of it. The little lizard (ok, it was sitting more like a frog, but we’ll stick with just one reptile comparison for now) is currently sitting breach (butt down) and after providing a nice profile, it turned it’s back to us and wouldn’t budge from there. We tried a couple of different remedies – walking around, having Sarah lay on her stomach, jiggling the hell out of her abdomen – but the little bugger just wouldn’t budge.

Despite that, the RN did get a few critical bits of data. Basically, Wee Little One weighs in at 9 oz., and all its limbs and bits look good. It stuck an arm toward us, giving us a nice close up of a hand and five little fingers. The RN also looked at it’s brain, which I must say looked mighty and super-genius like, and did some measurements; she also imaged the kidneys and checked out the blood flow to them. Very cool, that ultrasound machine.

And while we got a glimpse of the beating heart and could see all four chambers, the RN couldn’t get a clear shot of it – thanks to the backward facing and unco-operative child – in order to get whatever information she needed. Which just means that we have to schedule another appointment and hope the Little One is facing the right way round.