5 fingers!

now that i'm officially in the "what are you having" phase (aka 2nd trimester) of this old show, the drs at my office decided to do an ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby. i don't work in an obgyn office, so the us machine in our place is mainly used to diagnose hematomas and just-under-the-skin sorts of things; not really for rendering a verdict on boy v girl since your uterus is like all the way to china deep in your body. the higher the frequency was set, the smaller and smaller the viewfield became, thus making it impossible to see any of our bebe...EXCEPT his/her left hand! i know, i know, you've never heard more exciting news. who cares that we (read: those who actually voted, not including m'self) just elected the first black president? our wee one has all his/her fingers!!! at least on the left hand anyway. you'd think we haven't had an us yet with how excited i got over these little moving phalanges: wrong; complicatons and whatnot at the beginning made for 2 us in less than 3 days. i just hadn't seen any part of the baby so magnified that you could really tell what it was. and they were moving! his/her fingers were moving, bending, flexing. it was...amazing.