one girl, one boy
It strongly appears that we're going to have one girl and one boy in November. The ultrasound pictures are here:
http://gwen.barnesos.net/scrapbook/19weekUltrasound/
The ultrasound itself seemed to take forever. The tech first got herself an overview. The baby on my right side, she thought, was a bit farther down toward the exit than the other, so she called that baby A. That baby currently has her head up and her feet down. If it stays that way, I'm in for a C-section, but they're still small enough that they could move around some and change the situation. Baby B then was on my left. He's got his head down and his feet up.
The tech started out measuring baby A's various parts. She started measuring at the head and worked her way down the baby's body. The gender for baby A popped out pretty fast when she got to that part. After a while there were still a few parts on A she couldn't see, so she switched to baby B, hoping A would turn in the meantime.
Baby B went similarly, however, he did NOT want to show his goods. She got most parts of baby B, and then we took a break. There were still about 5 parts she wanted to measure, a few on each baby, and she couldn't see them due to how they were positioned. So she gave me some OJ, to hopefully sugar up the kids, and she told me to move around some, all to try to get them to move. When we went back to it, she got a few more parts, but baby B was still not in a good position to see if he was a boy or girl. Finally he must have started turning a bit, because the tech started saying things like, "I think I know what it is but I don't want to say until I can tell for sure." And she was pointing out little parts on the ultrasound, but not actually SAYING anything about them. I was getting the idea it was a boy though, when she finally got the shot she thought was definitive. She never did get a shot of baby B's spine -- it was just in the exact wrong position.
So for both gender shots, I think the legs are on either side, making a V, and the goods are in the middle, being pointed at by the arrow.
This ultrasound machine had a CD burner in it, so the tech was able to give me a CD of the pictures. Apparently they're in some super-weird PC format though. My mac wouldn't even mount the CD, and although the PC opened the folder and the pictures claimed to be jpegs, I couldn't even use winscp to upload them. I just got error messages. I ended up having to resave all the images after opening them in gimp, and then they copied over okay.
http://gwen.barnesos.net/scrapbook/19weekUltrasound/
The ultrasound itself seemed to take forever. The tech first got herself an overview. The baby on my right side, she thought, was a bit farther down toward the exit than the other, so she called that baby A. That baby currently has her head up and her feet down. If it stays that way, I'm in for a C-section, but they're still small enough that they could move around some and change the situation. Baby B then was on my left. He's got his head down and his feet up.
The tech started out measuring baby A's various parts. She started measuring at the head and worked her way down the baby's body. The gender for baby A popped out pretty fast when she got to that part. After a while there were still a few parts on A she couldn't see, so she switched to baby B, hoping A would turn in the meantime.
Baby B went similarly, however, he did NOT want to show his goods. She got most parts of baby B, and then we took a break. There were still about 5 parts she wanted to measure, a few on each baby, and she couldn't see them due to how they were positioned. So she gave me some OJ, to hopefully sugar up the kids, and she told me to move around some, all to try to get them to move. When we went back to it, she got a few more parts, but baby B was still not in a good position to see if he was a boy or girl. Finally he must have started turning a bit, because the tech started saying things like, "I think I know what it is but I don't want to say until I can tell for sure." And she was pointing out little parts on the ultrasound, but not actually SAYING anything about them. I was getting the idea it was a boy though, when she finally got the shot she thought was definitive. She never did get a shot of baby B's spine -- it was just in the exact wrong position.
So for both gender shots, I think the legs are on either side, making a V, and the goods are in the middle, being pointed at by the arrow.
This ultrasound machine had a CD burner in it, so the tech was able to give me a CD of the pictures. Apparently they're in some super-weird PC format though. My mac wouldn't even mount the CD, and although the PC opened the folder and the pictures claimed to be jpegs, I couldn't even use winscp to upload them. I just got error messages. I ended up having to resave all the images after opening them in gimp, and then they copied over okay.