We did this thing called nuchal translucency test. It involves having an ultrasound (number 2 in our case) and it happens between weeks 10 and 13 (according to most of my internet research though the staff at St. Vincent ’s wouldn’t do it before 11.5 weeks). This test is usually done for pregnant women over 35 to establish the probability of having a baby with a down syndrome. I’m not there quite yet so don’t ask why but I went along with this test even if I didn’t feel like it (it’s not diagnostic but depending on the results, it may call for diagnostic testing).
It was too early to determine the gender of the baby (which we may or may not choose to do yet), but it was an adventure seeing the little profile and the little legs and the little hands and the fact that the thing is clearly alive… INSIDE ME*. The baby definitely looked like it was floating in water and hiccupping. It** wasn’t turned the right way (they need to see the back of the neck) Chris, un-fazed, not missing a beat says: come on Twitchy, turn. This sent me to a small fit of laughter that may or may not have helped turn the baby.
Non-parenthetical footnotes for our child:
* No offense kid, it’s just one of those things that freakamaze me right now, you’ll understand sometime after you come out
** Sorry for calling you It – it’s perfectly normal in Bosnian, your aunt will teach you how that works
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