I'll do something non-baby related soon. Promise Lynne.

But for now, here are two photos from our super fancy 4D ultrasound I had done this morning!

I'm part of an NIH-funded study on nulliparas, aka first-time pregnant women, and they follow me during the pregnancy and get all up in my business with questionnaires, blood, fluid, and tissue samples, ultrasounds, and they even come to the delivery and snatch my afterbirth for more samples (don't worry, they just take a little bit and give me the rest so I can still eat it- in pill form, in case I hadn't mentioned that part yet). I'm all for scientific research (obviously, considering what I do for a living) and I'm happy to participate, especially since we get neat pictures like this.

In case you're confused about the 4D designation as I was, it just means that it's real time 3D images, so we saw what you see above, but in real time with her moving around. She kicked her legs a bit and kept covering up her face with her arms and it was surreal. Very bizarre to see her on the screen kicking while feeling it inside of me at the same time. Ah technology. My next 4D ultrasound for the study will be in April when I'm 28 weeks along (7 months for those right brainers) so she should be fully formed by then and ready to model.