Gulping Syrup

This morning was my scheduled ultrasound appointment. The purpose of this visit was to determine if the aching slight protrusion above my belly button was a hernia. It wasn't.

It was a fibroid, which the doctors assured me was tiny and innocuous. It was quite a relief. The odd thing is though, that after all the discomfort last week, the pain was magically gone this week. Strange.

Now, to my Bean news. I didn't realize they would be performing another full ultrasound. Lucky me! And the majority of it was in 3D mode. I don't think it's my imagination projecting my wishes onto the pictures -- the Bean looks like E. The lips, the spacing of the eyes -- the forehead even. Where am I? As far as I can determine, it looks to have the distinctive nose from my Mom's side of the family.

It was so sweet, during the ultrasound, the Bean yawned twice, and quite stubbornly resisted moving its hand away from its face. We poked and tried our best to disturb him/her. Evidently, the Bean was in a comfortable position.

And weight! It's weight is already well over two pounds! I was a little concerned by this, but the doctor assured me that he wasn't.

After the ultrasound, I made my way to the blood lab for the glucose test which screens for gestational diabetes. I had to down about 12 ounces of the most disgusting, sickly sweet, "lime" flavored drink before waiting an hour to have my blood drawn. (I felt like such an adult, I didn't have the dreaded panic feeling before getting jabbed.)

Regarding the diabetes, I'm really, really hoping that this won't be something that I'll have to worry about. It will be a couple days -- probably Monday -- before I know the results.

So, I'm sharing my photos of the Bean, AKA Lil' e.