my baby has hair. and naughty bits.

Which were really cool, and pretty funny respectively, to see on the monitor at my ultarsound. Things are very different here from Moncton, I have to say. It's all very 'take a number, go sit down and wait' here. Also, they say that someone can come with you into the ultrasound room, but they fail to mention that they can't come in during the actual ultrasound when they're doing the measuring and so on. I didn't even get to see the monitor while she was doing all her scanning and measuring. They do all that, then go get the father (or whoever) and then you both get a sort of show where the tech just scans the baby and points out fun things like an open mouth or an ear, or in our case hair. Also the naughty bits, she's like, 'we can't actually come out and tell you what it is, but if you can't see that, you're blind.' So it all ended up fine, and I was able to drop off my pre-registration form. I didn't get a tour, but I'm not really worried about it, it doesn't really matter since I have limited (no) other options as to where to deliver this baby. Anyway, the most fun news of all today was that the baby already weighs 7lbs 2oz. I'm assuming there's some margin of error for the measurement, but I asked about it and the tech was like, 'oh, no, it's very accurate.' Super. They gain about 1/2lb a week now, so I'm saying seriously, any day now is great.

That's about it, my bags are packed, the baby's room is being painted as I type, everything is washed and ready to go. The tech said her best guess is 2-3 weeks, but very unlikely 4. I was like, and maybe one? She laughed and said that you never know, it's really impossible to know for sure, but more likely sooner than later, given the size of the baby and the extra fluid still floating around in there. She also said that she's never seen a baby so active at this stage, usually they're all curled up and you just get the occasional hand or foot movement. This guy's not doing any head-over-feet flips (he's still head down, and likely to stay that way, which is good), but he's still rolling side to side and moving his arms and legs all over the place. He's making full use of his expanded living area. So, that's all my news for now. Keep sending your 'go into labour' vibes my way, please. hehe.