Ultrasound pics and random blabber

It's been a long time since Selene and I have been talking abt scanning in the ultrasound pics and archiving them. Just managed to dig out the scans just now. Aiyoh, found out that the pics actually have no dates one! So terok, so don't really know the rest of the stack which dates they really are. Also, realised that when you are doing the scan at the gynae, everything looked logical and clear. But now looking back at those pics, can't make head and tail out of the mass of black and white blobs.

Since I can only make something intelligible out the latest scan (28 Apr 08 for the FA scan, not to mention that I probably have no idea when the rest are done), I picked out only 2 of them to scan them into the computer.

This is the scan of the whole baby, measuring 94.9mm (as you can see in the lower left of the picture). The gynae told us that by the time the baby is X weeks old (I can't remember what X is), the length of the fetus is immaterial and the only important thing is the head diameter. Make sense, since the baby seems to be doing somersaults most of the time in Selene's stomach and in all sorts of positions. For example, doing the FA scan, he was actually scratching his ass with one of his hands, and the gynae had to gyrate the baby to loosen his grip to count the number of fingers of each hand. So yeah, length doesn't matter.

The other thing I realised abt our gynae is his obsession with my little one's willy. Here's a pic of him measuring the length of my little one's member. Yup, it's a puny little 4.4mm. But length doesn't matter right?? (or so they say, at least for now). I probably got another million of ultrasound pics with different willy's length captured during all the different scans. My gynae is rather proud that he could determine the sex of the baby when he was week 13. By week 16, he was "90% sure". During the FA scan (week 20.7, as stated in the report), he was "200% sure". And yes, I have all the pics to prove too (courtesy of my gynae).

Well, another thing that has been bugging me is the name of our little astronaut. Yes, the boy-with-no-name-for-now has inherited various names such as Kenji, Ethan, 黄黎, 黄色,黄瓜，黄金 and any other 黄X that you can think of. Sigh, realised that it's so difficult to think of a good name!

And poor Selene also has so much water retention these days that her leg is turning into "pig's leg". She can't stand for long and the legs are overly swollen and very "meaty". We have tried massaging and drinking lots of fluid (as recommended by different websites) but the problem keeps coming back. She also has all the lower back pains with the growing stomach. Hopefully things will get better in the days to come.