Eggy Ultrasounds - coolest thing ever!

So, we have an amazing OB-GYN, Dr. Mimi Yum, who happens to be one of our closest family friends.  We're really fortunate to have Mimi as our doc, because not only is she amazing, compassionate, caring and dedicated - she's also awesome at her job.  Anyway, we had our first ultrasound on Nov 18 - this was a big moment, since it was our first time seeing a baby in a live ultrasound!

Our little gummy bear at Wk 8 (Dec 15, 2010)

Isn't Eggy cute?  Doesn't he/she look like a Gummy Bear?

Gummy Bear or Eggy?

At this time, Eggy was about the size of a pear... 2 months later on Jan 19th, which seemed like an ETERNITY, we had our Week 17 ultrasound.  Lisa described the stress level as reaching it's peak at ultrasound reads (after you hear everything is going well / baby appears to be doing well), then slowly degrading until the next ultrasound!  It's so true...  anyway, we were nervous again heading into Wk 17, but we had an AMAZING ultrasound doc (his name was Al Bundy - no joke!).  Anyway, unlike the previous one, he was very comforting and wanted us to ask as many questions as possible.  At this point, Eggy is more like a real person!

Look at the size of that head! It's like sputnik!  Wk 17 (Jan 19, 2011)

It's crazy - you can actually make out the head, nose, mouth, hands, etc.  I literally got the shivers as the doc moved the ultrasound device around - seeing the baby's skeletal structure, hands, legs.  The babymaking process is truly amazing - what the human body does and how it develop never ceases to amaze me.  There are even 3D ultrasounds, which provide even MORE detail as to how your kid looks and is developing.  We'll prob get one around Wk 24.

Hopefully we'll find out the gender then, so we can stop this nonsense of "I hope we have a boy", "I wish it were a girl!".  Really, we both just want Eggy to be happy & healthy...

This is getting more and more real!