here are the ultrasound pics... all are profile views... heartbeat is 161 bpm... and we got to see the baby swallowing (neat).
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the baby was obviously big enough to take the measurements this time. and it was crazy active... bouncing all over the place! they measured the fluid in the baby's neck, squeezed as much blood as possible out of my finger tip, and weighed me. all those things plus age go into calculating the baby's risk for down syndrome, other trisomies, and other chromosomal abnormalities. i think. should know our "risk" within 10 business days. we're confident that all is fine. we struggled with whether or not to do the screening. but most people we talked with said they weren't all that worried about it, they just did the screening because you get another ultrasound. justin was totally on board with that.
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Oh Wow! I go away from the blogging world for awhile, and just look at the wonderful news I have missed!! :) CONGRATS! How very exciting.
i had that screening done w/ my first ultrasound. came back "positive," but then they realized i wasn't as far along as they thought. they wanted to do it again, but i said no thanks.
i hear they do a lot more ultrasounds now than they did when i was prego. take em where you can get em!
beth, i don't know if you'll see this or not...
how many ultrasounds did you get?
i got one at my first appointment, to confirm pregnancy.
got one almost 2 weeks ago to do the screening (baby not big enough).
got one last friday to try the screening again.
and assuming all is well the only other one should be at 20 weeks (anatomy scan).
funny, we actually considered not going back too. felt like maybe it was a sign to just drop it.
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