I have been remiss in not updating my thoughts about pregnancy, birth, and everything in between (and after). That's the way of blogging I guess. Let's start with a big shoutout to my dear, amazing friends Avital and Gili Zemer who tied the knot a week and a bit ago. An amazing couple and an oustanding event.
Back to the little humanoid in Rose's uterus and all things related. While, in the past few weeks, I've been seeing movies (incendies and jellyfish most notably, both good films), I've also been reading this book, written by a midwife who has been midwifing for a good, long time. The book describes Peggy's process of transition from nurse to midwife at a time when, even in hippy California, the profession was just gaining respectability.
The rest of the book contains excellent vignettes of births, each with something interesting to tell about the mother, the partner (or, in some cases, partners, including an entire Italian family and a group of new-agey lesbians), or the process of the birth. Well-written and highly digestible book.
Today's big news, however, as the post title may have led you to believe, is the long-awaited ultrasound! Ultrasounds are important tools for scientific reasons, but even more important as incontrovertible evidence (if you trust modern science, that is) that there is a fetus growing inside the mommy. This is now beyond doubt. Unfortunately, I had to take a bus to the ultrasound and I hate taking the bus. Nevertheless, it was pretty cool. We even got a picture, and I'll even try to attach it if I can figure out how.
See that, he's already standing up! (That's just me not knowing how to turn this thing around; also, the reason I say 'he' is because Rose decided she doesn't like calling the baby 'it', so we're alternating between the two pronouns. And my brother already used up the joke about the baby's leg, so no need to bother). Anyway, you get the idea: it's a baby in there! And we even got to see inside its brain! Scary stuff. And you guys are fortunate to see it.
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