Mike calls Baby #2 “Secondo,” a la the movie Big Night. It’s probably better than what we called Declan when he was in utero – “Meatball.”
After having researched the potential effects of ultrasounds on fetuses, we decided that we would not get any routine ultrasounds this time around with the pregnancy. So, of course, we ended up having to get one after all, after some health questions came up last week.
We were thrilled to learn that everything is fine – the heartbeat was a healthy 170 beats per minute, the measurements were lined up exactly with the baby’s age (12.5 weeks on 8/24), and we discovered that we have either a thumb-sucker or a nose-picker, depending on what you can make out from the pictures. When Mike and Declan came in to see the images, the baby actually seemed to give them a little wave, and Declan waved back. Seeing the pictures seems to have made it more real for Declan that there’s an actual “baby” in there.
Here are two of the images we got that day – enjoy the world’s first look at Baby #2!
