Baby's First Photos

These are some of our baby’s first photos. It is an awesome thing to see our child move around in the womb. During the first ultrasound in August he or she was only three centimeters in length, but was very active—kicking and moving its arms like a freestyle swimmer. What especially struck me was the sound of the tiny fetus’ heartbeat. The doctor turned up the sound on the ultrasound machine and the heartbeat filled the entire examination room—the stamp of human life at only 3 centimeters in size.



These two photos are from the end of September. The baby is quite a bit bigger and still just as active. Ryan was present for this ultrasound and asked the doctor, “When is it possible to find out the sex of the baby?” We hadn’t yet decided if we wanted to know the sex of the baby, and Ryan asked this question out of curiosity and not out of the desire to know our baby’s gender. But the doctor replied, “Well, let’s see.” And from then on he was in search for the genitals. He was able to get a pretty good angle of that critical region and said, “That looks like a penis.” Of course, at only 15 weeks it was far too early to guarantee, but now that we think it may be a boy, we are going to find out the sex just to make sure. If it is a girl, we’ll have an ironic photo for her baby book with an arrow pointing to the crotch and the word “boy.”



Ryan and I have been working on choosing a name for our child, and since our doctor thinks that he may’ve found a penis, we are focusing on boy names. So far the names in running are: Cash, Ace, Champ, Hrothgar, and Santa (‘tis the season, right?). But most recently, our family has been fixated on the name “Klaus.” Do any of you have any suggestions? Feel free to enter them in the comments section of this blog.