We're having...

an alien! See?



That was at the 13-week ultrasound at the end of March, when they were measuring the nuchal translucency to screen for several genetic defects. Definitely alien-like, but apparently a normal alien, since the screening was fine.

At the same scan, we also got to see what appeared to be some attempt at thumb-sucking (or waving, or, most likely, random hand movement):



Then, this past Monday, we had the usual mid-pregnancy ultrasound. We saw cool tiny feet, and baby practicing sucking (tongue movement and so forth), and the heart beating, and the bladder and stomach and the grand tour of major organs, but the only pictures that were printed out were lots of shots of the head in profile. Here ya go:




In the next two you can see the heart and stomach -- the dark spots, since they're full of liquid:





And another nondescript profile:



And finally, in this one you can see part of the hand in front of the face -- baby was waving his or her hands around a lot.



And... there you go. It really was amazing watching my baby move around inside me; the pictures don't do it justice. They also had a 3-D thing that stitched together lots of cross-sections to make a somewhat-recognizable 3-D picture, but they didn't print any of those out.

Everything looked normal; baby was measuring the size for a due date of 10/12, which is definitely within normal since my estimated due date is 10/10. So... yay! Stay tuned in the next little bit for an absolutely AWESOME song that Asher sang for us the other night.