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I just loaded in the DVD of the ultrasound to watch to myself, and I started giggling and smiling. I think one of my favorite parts of the video isn’t even the 3D section, but getting to have a permanent record of a 2D ultrasound in video! I just love<\/strong> watching them scan through her body, watching her wiggle and kick and move. I can read 2D better than 3D anyways, I think. Don’t get me wrong, I do love having the 3D pictures! But to me the snapshots in 3D would have been enough, but I could sit and watch her in black and white all day long. It is amazing.<\/p>\n

I think during the actual ultrasound I was still wound pretty tight and didn’t really get to relax and enjoy it as much as I would have liked. In a way it’s like watching a race in the olympics; I find I enjoy it more the second time after I know what the result was, the first time I’m too anxious about what is going to happen. So to me this is really cool. I wonder if Den will think the same.<\/p>\n

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I was asked about names – I’m surprized no one has asked before this. :) The thing is, we have two perfect girls names picked out. We love them both and if we have another girl someday we will use the second one. We had only one boy name picked out, so if this had turned out to be a boy it was set in stone. Alas with a girl it is not so certain. The girls names are Katherine Elizabeth and Cailet Amber. We love both for different reasons. We are leaning more towards Katherine, and even started calling her that, but then as this girl’s personality comes out I started feeling a lot of anxiety and wondering if maybe it’s not the right name – she seems so spunky. So I’m frozen. I’m waiting for something to jump out at me and make one feel completely right, but unfortunately that may not happen until she’s born. So until I figure it out she’s just baby girl. It’s driving me crazy, too. I hate not having a name.<\/p>\n

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I carefully put together a sig today – a small scrapbook-style graphic to be used on one of my forums. In it I used my favorite of baby girl’s 3D pictures and I also put Devin’s in there, too, since he is always included in some way. After I finished, when I stopped looking at it in terms of color matching and balanced design, when I really looked at it and took it in, I realized: baby girl looks so much<\/i> like Devin. Same nose. I’ve thought about what she will look like – hell, I’ve thought about what he<\/i> would look like. And suddenly there she is, her fuzzy little 3D womb picture, pointing out in startling clarity how much my children look alike, at least from their first photo.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to meet her on the outside, to take real pictures, to take in her eyes and nose and mouth… and to get a glimpse of what my little boy might have looked like alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just loaded in the DVD of the ultrasound to watch to myself, and I started giggling and smiling. I think one of my favorite parts of the video isn’t even the 3D section, but getting to have a permanent record of a 2D ultrasound in video! I just love watching them scan through her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,63,412],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-names","tag-ultrasound","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}