The skinny:

[judecorp]

Estimated weight: 4lbs 7oz (49th percentile)

There was plenty of fluid, there was a VERY head down baby with hair on her head, and everything looked good. We don't have the "official" word from the midwives or anything but the ultrasound tech said everything looked great.

I honestly don't know where 4lb 7oz of baby is hiding in my little gut. I think I might have a tilted uterus because the tech found baby's butt to be higher on my abdomen than the midwives have been measuring. I can't believe there's a baby butt so high in my gut and I can't even tell.

It was a good time and definitely worth it. We got to fall madly in love with our kid all over again. What I thought was a stray foot poking me was actually her knees and elbows, which would explain why it hurts so much sometimes.

Yay baby!

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm with you. For REAL. For a little while I actually tried to /explain/ to people why this wasn't helpful, but it got damned tiring to tell people in my weeks-of-20 that "Hey, you know, we lost a baby early on and had a pretty traumatic first trimester so really the LAST thing we want to hear is that we don't look pregnant. Can you LIE or something? Please?" So eventually we agreed to suck it up and smile, and not try to shoot people with laser eyes and play the "dead baby" card.

But now I feel like I can say, "Shut yo mouth, my kid weighs over 4.5 lbs in there somewhere, so stick it!" Which in its own way is more empowering than being all "poor me had a rough time, be nice." So I feel good.

Obviously I don't have organs. I am becoming convinced of this. Bladder aside, I don't really feel ANY of the stuff like "kicks in the ribs" (even though the tech showed us the feet there), difficulty breathing, etc. Apparently my lungs disappeared when I got pregnant, thus the extra room.

Can I just tell you how excited I am that people seem to be getting knocked up right and left right now? It's like Global Dyke Domination or something.