Pic of the Day #781

November 8, 2008

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This is kind of a weird picture, I admit, and I’m not entirely sure it works. Basically, I finally managed to get a good picture of in profile, and I layered one of her pictures overtop of it in . Obviously, it’s the same little baby in both pictures, but I thought it’d be cool to try. And while I’m not sure it worked 100% (I might try do it as an animated at some point), it still gave me a chance to crack open again.

 
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First baby pictures!

June 19, 2008

A while back, had her ultrasound done, just to make sure that our little one was healthy and growing. And as it turns out, our little one is doing just fine…and at least as far as the ultrasound tech was concerned, Grace is also pretty-much on track for an October 23rd or 24th delivery*. Her seems to be going very well. And blessedly, she herself is doing just smashing, for the most part.

At any rate, we made sure to ask for pictures from the exam. Here is, I think, the best one.

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There is something amazing happening in Grace’s body. She do good work. :)

* Of course, in the end, that’s the little one’s to decide, so we’ll see how October progresses.

 
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A little heartbeat!

May 7, 2008

Grace had her monthly appointment with the doctor this morning, to monitor the progress of the . I went along, just because…I happen to think that being involved in my wife’s health is a good thing anyhow, and this latest development only reinforces my desire to do so.

The doctor didn’t do a full , but she did use a miniature unit to monitor and record the baby’s heartbeat, which was a healthy 148 beats/minute ( tells me that it should be in the range between 120 and 170 if the baby is healthy).

Honestly, it was one of the most incredible things I’ve been fortunate enough to witness. One minute, there was nothing — the next, from just below my wife’s stomach (she’s not “showing” at all), there was this strong, fast heartbeat echoing through the room. Our little one is going strong. And so too is Grace, with nary a bout of morning sickness or any of the other “typical” symptoms one is apparently supposed to expect of a pregnant woman. I’m proud enough that I’m a father; I’m substantially more proud of my lovely wife, and I am so grateful for her and all that she is.

Hearing the ultrasound also reinforced my stance: it would take a measure of heartlessness that I find, quite frankly, frightening to contemplate, to think it permissible, under any circumstance, to make that heartbeat stop before its time. A truly horrid thing, .

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