Saturday, February 07, 2009

Sydney's 3-D Ultrasound

A little over a year ago I decided to get a 3-D Ultrasound of Sydney. I had only seen one before (Ben's daughter's) and it looked really cool. So off we go to get it.......

















I couldn't make heads or tails (no pun intended) of any of it and a couple days later I showed Laura the pictures (figured the Radiology background could help me translate the pictures), she couldn't tell what most of the body parts were. This is the exact reason why the Radiology Technicians aren't supposed to tell you anything and respond to your query of "Does everything look okay" with "We are not allowed to share the results with you, they need to be viewed by the doctor first". So what does Laura say to Kim's query? "When you go to your next doctor appointment you should ask him what this is, I'm not really sure". NOTHING GOOD ABOUT THAT!

So I go to the doctor and I specifically ask him about picture number 1 and 3 and he says "I'm not really sure, you know these pictures are not as good as they could be. For the next 4 months I was terrified I was having an alien.

When she finally made her appearance I just asked "Does she look relatively normal?"

Moral of the Story: Don't go for the 3-D Ultrasound

9 comments:

Jane said...

Technician's fix the x-ray equipment. Technologist take the x-rays. Doctors interpret and calm mothers about alien looking fetus'.

what a cute fetus

Bianka said...

I can totally make it out! She has her hands up over head. She is facing towards the lower right corner of the 1st and 3rd pictures. Her ear is towards the left middle side. Her face is totally smooshed, her nose is flattened. If you had the ultra sounds taken pretty late that may be why she's so smooshed up.. there was no more room left!

Ann said...

A friend of mine had a 3-D ultrasound, and they took video of it too. It was really cool.

Good thing Sydney is a cute alien!

Diane said...

She is perfect:)

Kim Thomas said...

How did this not generate more comments?

Paula said...

I think she was putting on a Picasso-esque show for your entertainment. It's not her fault if you don't get it.
;-)

Andrea said...

I'm going to be honest... these pics do NOT look like the ones on the commercial! However, in the flesh, Sydney could not be ANY cuter!

Queen B said...

RO! Definitely nothing good about that. Apparently you should have been showing the pics to Bianka (maybe via the blog...how did this not go on the blog???)

Tim said...

I can't count the number of tries it took us to get the 3D ultrasound right. It was our last chance to find out gender, since t was so uncooperative with the doctor.

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