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Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I went for our first sonogram to make sure that this wasn't an intopic (sp?) pregnancy.
Everything was fine and on the screen we saw this little speck, just a dot, that is the baby. Two lives, 35 years apiece, all of our accomplishments, our experiences go into making this tiny dot that's probably smaller than a lima bean. Something so very, very small. And we couldn't be prouder.
I can't wait to find out who is in there, who that little dot is. I look at the picture and marvel at how there is so much life, so much potential, so much worry and wonder. All in just a little, tiny speck. I'm thrilled and terrified, I'm excited and worried. I'm humbled and exalted.
And I wonder how anyone, after experiencing this singular moment can detach themself from reality and decide that it doesn't matter, that a simple medical procedure could end it all, snuff out all of those possibilities and go on with life.
I've heard scientists, teachers and folks with a beer in hand explain how at one time, billions and billions of years ago, the Universe was just a tiny little speck, a dot filled with nothing and everything. And then, once upon a time, it just grew and grew, making everything we've known and everything we'll learn.
And here, nestled in my wife's womb,it plays out again on a much smaller stage, but one no less important to me and my life. Everything from nothing, from potential to permanence, from hope to happening.
And I wonder,what if billions of years ago someone had aborted the Big Bang because of how complicated it would make everything.
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It almost certainly has them already, Psi... they're just not visible on an ordinary sonogram at this stage... how far along Sopwith?
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I called our daughter "our little peanut" after her first ultrasound. It was such an amazing and wonderful thing to see that little heart beating. I look at my beautiful little three-year-old daughter now and remember that moment when I first heard her and saw her.
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PSI, different doctors have very different policies about ultrasounds. Also, the AMA's recommendations changed about *thinks* well, more than 5 years ago, because it was before I was pregnant with child #3.
With my first kid, I was part of an NIH study -- lots of ultrasounds, and with what was then cutting-edge technology, which showed blood flow and stuff.
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Our doctor for our first child had a policy of doing the first ultrasound at 8 weeks, and having at least two more before birth. It was a good thing, too, because the later ultrasound revealed that our daughter had low fluid, and we were able to take some precautionary measures.
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My doctors recommended against multiple ultrasounds because of some research showed lower birth weights of babies who had multiple ultrasounds. Consequently, I only had the one around 14 weeks. I think it really does depend on your doctor.
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I got my first one four or five months in.
