First Sonogram Picture

Dr. C wanted to see me the day after I got back from my 10-day trip to Toronto. This turned out to be a GREAT doctor's appointment.

I got my second look at the baby and my first photo to take home. That big circle is not the baby's head, but rather the amniotic sac. Everything below that is the baby. Still looks much more like a cluster of dust, but there has certainly been developmental progress since my first look.

During the sonogram they confirmed that there is only 1 baby and that I indeed have 2 kidneys ... all very good news!

But the best news of all was the doctor's reaction to my uterus, which he says looks normal based on today's sonogram. They measured it and it is within a normal size range. They said the shape is round (not like a banana liked it looked on the sonogram at the fertility specialist's office) and that the baby is right in the middle of it. Hopefully getting very comfortable and planning to stay there full term!

I asked Dr. C if he thinks Dr. H. mis-diagnosed me and he said not necessarily. He said that when a woman gets pregnant her uterus expands. He theorized that perhaps mine expanded a lot. The fact that I'm tall may also be and advantage here as maybe my partial uterus was still a decent size.

So it seems that my body may be making the necessary adjustments to accommodate the pregnancy. Amazing.

Whatever the case, I'm thrilled that Dr. C. was so thrilled with what he saw at 8 weeks.

My next doctor's appointment is on Oct. 1.