5 weeks, 6 days
You can see the yolk sac just about, in the top image especially. It sort of looks the the top edge of a round polo mint (as the sonographer described it!). Arthur was still too tiny to be seen at this stage. The black gestational sac measured only 1.5cm across!
7 weeks, 0 days
Arthur's first photo!! This scan took place just 8 days after the previous one, and already he has grown so much! He measured over 6mm long from crown to rump, which put him at a gestational age of 6 weeks, 4 days. But I knew he was 7 weeks and just taking his time to grow :) Arthur is the little "bean" shaped object in the black gestational sac, and the round thing next to him is his yolk sac. I love this picture. It looks like he's holding a balloon!
13 weeks, 0 days
Here is Arthur at his dating scan, now measuring right on target to the exact day! He measured 13 weeks exactly, which is how pregnant I was at the time. The picture is roughly life-size I believe. He was such a weeny boy for such amazing detail! We did see his boy bits at this scan but the sonographer would not comment on them, and Neil and I had to leave feeling like we were SURE we saw boy parts, but couldn't be 100% because maybe we were just being amateurs or something! In this picture you can see his facial profile, his brain, his ear, his nuchal fold (the black strip along his spine at the back of his neck), his heart, his little body, and the faint outline of his legs as they are bent up to his tummy and then up towards the top right of the picture. He swallowed the amniotic fluid a lot when this picture was taken. His little lips look slightly pursed, but that's because he was literally mid-swallow! He had just closed his mouth before opening it again for another drink! :)
21 weeks, 6 days
Arthur's big ultrasound! Here we found out for sure that he is 100% boy! His boy bits were so clear and sticky-outie that the sonographer even commented on how clear and easy it was to tell his gender! The first image is a good one of his facial profile. The second one shows a better image of his little knee which is drawn up to his chest, almost on his chin! And the 3rd picture is a facial image, which I think is soooo cute. You can see his eyeball, and a rather inaccurate image of his nose (it's not that big!), and his little mouth and soft cheeks, and pointy chin. I think he's so beautiful.
We are not scheduled for any more ultrasounds during this pregnancy, so this page is probably complete, but I'll upload more images if we happen to have another one! Can't wait to meet my sweet little boy! :)
