According to yesterday's ultrasound, baby girl weighs 3 lbs. 3 oz. (which means she's gained 1 lbs. 6 oz. this month!). She's still head down, and still doesn't like to be...ultrasounded. She spent the whole scan rolling over, hiding whichever body part the sonographer was attempting to measure, and pressing her nose into the side of my uterus. I wonder if she's camera shy or just practicing nuzzling.
Based on this recent batch of Baby Clayface 3D ultrasound images, she looks like Rob.
The baby already has preferences, mostly related to how much she wants to be pressed on, measured, and messed with (hint: NOT AT ALL). Her wild limb-thrashing increases as my blood sugar drops. She definitely responds to sounds. I think she likes Rob's calm, even "reading aloud" voice the best.
I wonder how much of her strong personality is really her and how much is my imagination of what she could be like. When I lie in bed, marveling at the movement inside, thinking about the tiny girl gesturing with her tiny arms...I wonder what she's thinking about. Does she have thoughts? I imagine she must, but what could they possibly be?
When she sleeps in there, does she dream?
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It's really fun to see her pictures. I wonder about all of those things too, what are they up to in there, what are they thinking about, which things do they prefer. It's fun to imagine and to think we know, but do we really have any idea? I guess we'll see!
I will never stop being amazed that technology exists that lets us look at a person growing inside another person. I never had a 3D ultrasound, but I wish I did, because they're freaking crazy awesome.
When I was pregnant, I used to wonder about these things too: does the baby have thoughts? Probably, but of what? It's so weird that we don't remember that time of growing inside our mothers, or being born, or really anything from infancy. I have flashes sometimes that are purely visual and non-verbal, and I am positive that they're memories of when I was very, very young and couldn't yet communicate.
You know, there's a part of me that thinks we project what we want our babies to be like on them while they are in the womb but...there's another part of me that said over and over how much more active baby boy was in there than baby girl was, and sure enough, when I lay him on the floor, he kicks and twists and wiggles--never still! I definitely have this idea that he will be the one teaching his big sister how to get in trouble instead of the other way around, and I've thought that since I was pregnant.
Her ultrasound pictures are so clear--she's beautiful!
There's a lovely lullaby song by Barenaked Ladies called "When You Dream" that contemplates what is going through a baby's head. It's really sweet and a great song. Download it if you can.
P.S. Just started reading your blog yesterday and I'm totally addicted. Your writing is extremely engrossing.
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