There hasn’t been a lot to report the past few weeks other than being nauseated every day and have headaches most of them as well. But today you get something worthwhile: an ultrasound report.

We headed to the maternal fetal center for the ultrasound and first blood test in the combitest. It tests for risk of Down Syndrome, a couple other trisomies, some severe abnormalities, and so on.

The center had a whole host of small little ultrasound rooms, with cute lighting that looked like stars on the ceiling. The sonographer came in after a little while, goo’ed up my belly, and began the wanding. We saw the little alien quite clearly right away, and it was positioned quite nicely to start taking measurements on nuchal transparency. The baby stayed mostly well positioned, but moved around a fair amount, stretching out, swinging limbs, and spinning on the axis of the spine.

The sonographer went on to measure blood flow around the bladder (which was pretty awesome to see), measured length, looked at the heartbeat (171bmp), checked arms and hands and legs and toes, looked at the nasal bridge, showed up all kinds of little bits. The ‘crown to rump’ length was 6.87cm, putting gestational age at 13.0 weeks, rather than the 12.5 weeks I ought to be, but ultrasounds aren’t exactly the most reliable at precision.

It was cool, but weird. I think that’s the operative work for most of this – weird. Since I don’t still feel pregnant outside of feeling sick.