Last Thursday, we went and had an ultrasound to settle the critical "one baby or two" question. Here is the result of that test:
Unhelpful, right? Like a snowy TV, really. Here. let me give you a hand:
The picture shows one baby (because that's what we're having: one baby). Don't be tempted to think the little peanut-shaped bright structure (the yolk sac, labeled here) is the baby; it's not. The baby is a darker mass up from and left of the yolk sac. I know this because, from inside the room, you can see the baby's tiny heart beating right in that area. The heartbeat was good and strong --- a particular concenr of ours, given our personal history.
For scale, I've labeled the gestational sac, which is 1.7cm in length. The baby here is about 0.3cm in length -- the size of a small coffee bean. For this reason Sarah briefly took to referring to baby as "Latte Hopkins."
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