Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Graduation Day

We had the last of our early ultrasounds yesterday.  First, the picture.


My usual annotated copy.



Baby is head-down and facing to your left.  From head to rump, baby measures 3.03cm.  That's 1.19in, and corresponds to an age of 9 weeks, 6 days.  As of yesterday, baby's actual age was 9 weeks, 5 days (this moment in hyper-precision brought to you by in vitro fertilization!), so we're right on schedule.  Live, you can see baby's heart beating and his/her arms and legs moving.  The heartbeat, at 175 bpm, is right where it ought to be.  The arm and leg movement has triggered a running gag around my house about baby waving to us, and then kicking in a "OK, I said hello, now get out of here" motion.

With all these right-on-schedule measurements, our IVF doc has decided to turn Sarah over to her regular OB. So we're all done with the fertility clinic for this go-round.  We don't expect to return to the clinic until the biannual "baby party" at Mother's Day next year.  

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