Yesterday we got some 3D ultrasound images of our daughter’s face.
This one’s my favorite:
I cannot get enough of looking at her. I know full well that these images are approximate 3D renderings of 2D data, and that they’re blurry and ghostly and partial. But she has a face, a real human face, the one she will be born with, if all goes well for the next 16 or so weeks. I am getting heavier, and I have way less stamina than usual. But who cares. It’s funny how these images make me able to focus on her in a way I couldn’t before. She is no longer an abstraction, not at all. She has every organ she needs to and weighs 1 pound 5 ounces. Which made me shudder slightly when I realized how much heavier my belly will get before she’s ready to come out. We don’t yet have a name for her though her in-the-womb name is Faustina - this week.
In other news, the Verizon misery is finally resolved, though it was really extremely miserable. I simply can’t understand why anyone would run a company as if it were a state-owned service organization in an Eastern Bloc country in the 1970s.
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[...] Faustina is definitely on her way now. At this week’s doctor’s visit I found out my cervix is 1 centimeter dilated and 60% effaced - which doesn’t mean very much except, as I see it, that this child is really and actually coming out of me in a month or so. And here I was, finally getting used to being pregnant: maybe it would be okay if this is how things would always be. And now, suddenly, there are only 30 days left until my due date. Not a lot of time even if she stays inside me for all of it! [...]
[...] was still way up then around 2pm it was not. The first thing I felt was that a particular movement Faustina often makes was suddenly occurring an inch below where I was used to it occurring. Then this [...]
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