Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Pregnant Beholder
You know how it goes. You have a prenatal appointment, they do an ultrasound, they let you see your baby, and you're just filled - suffused - with the joy of seeing your beautiful baby boy right there on the screen, every healthy - healthy! - bouncing inch of him, little legs bending and kicking (oooh, my goodness, you have a little active one! says the radiologist), little hand shoved in little mouth, and you think, that's my baby, that's my beautiful baby.
And the radiologist says, I just need to get a look face-on, and pushes and prods at your belly with the ultrasound stick, and then exclaims, oh, look, there's the little face!
And you think, oh, my. SKELETOR.
But he's still the most beautiful boy that you've ever seen.
posted by Her Bad Mother @ Saturday, January 12, 2008
53 Comments:
Remember it all too clearly! They could be twins.
Cheers
That is so cool. And freaky. And cool.
Oh yes. I remember having very late ultrasounds, and seeing her face and the eyes all big black void like some horrow movie, but still, the chubby cheeks and rosebud baby mouth are so lovely...
Yup. We have quite a few of those skeletor pictures of the twins.
Oh yes... Skeletor. Good thing those ultrasound pics don't resemble the real baby, eh?
Glad everything's going so well!
I thought that Lizzy looked like an alien: big almond shaped blank eyes and a very large head.
She still has a big head.
Way cool. I'm so happy for you all.
I always so enjoyed seeing my boys on screen... so thrilling!
Oh yes, I remember that. And getting tears in my eyes at how beautiful he was! :)
Hee. We still display our "skeletor's" first little ultrasound portrait in a frame.
All I've been able to see is a blob and yolk sac, so this is remarkably more defined than what I've seen so far of our first kiddo.
Your BadBaby has rockin' eye sockets!
Ah, Skeletor. What a beautiful little boy :)
...we always thought ours were aliens.
He is beautiful.
It's even creepier to see that skeletal face in 3D (or 4D - whatever).
Love the u/s shots.
Wonderbaby and Skeletor? It has an entertaining ring to it.
I thought my ultrasounds were so cool. It satisfied so many of my curiosities. Glad all is going so very well! Hugs- EE
I remember the shock the first time I saw an ultrasound, since I had NO IDEA that I was going to be seeing my little beloved skeleton. And now how dear those little bones look.
Just checking in to see how you are.
Looks like all is well with your little man. Yeay! What did your daughter think of the pic?
BubTar watched my ultrasound video with me and he called KayTar "scary baby monster". LOL. I think he thought she was going to come out looking like skeletor.
I thought Skeletor too on my ultra sounds. But your right, the baby is still beautiful.
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations on the baby boy! I honestly thought you'd have another girl. This is so awesome. Love those ultrasound pictures. I'm suffering the baby blues, once again. Someday it will happen....I hope....
Totally.
(and also? this just happened to us on friday, so this post is especially apropos!)
Awe, it's so true.
Cutest Skeletor ever! ;)
So true!
Hey - I had a Skeletor picture too! I was kinda scared.
He looks nothing like Skeletor now though. More like Mr Potato Head.
Oh yes, we had that a month or three (gosh, that long already?) ago. And relatives kept wanting to see the latest ultrasounds, and I felt obliged to tell them that it looked like skeletor and not to get so excited. I think the great grandparents were expecting harry potter style full on smiling pictures, waving back at them...
But yes, my baby is still the most beautiful thing I have ever seen, even if I am afraid that its first words will be "I am your father, Luke"
I remember this so well! The shock and love. Lovely Boy.
I gotta tell you...I'm thinking Wonderbaby has an edge on the cute kid factor right now.
But I'm sure the little dude will eventually give her a run for her money in cuteness.
You know, when he like, gets a face.
Hey I have that same photo!! Our last scan was done just over a week ago, he is so big now all you can see is bits of him in each screen shot! But yours is still small and cute, they always look cuter from the side on.
My main experience was 1. desperately hoping he looked healthy and 2. not being able to make out a thing on the screen! Ah well, he ended up healthy AND cute. :)
Skeletor! *snicker*
I seriously did not even CARE what the kid looked like once I heard the ultrasound tech say a whole list of things such as, "Fully fused brain stem. Healthy four-chambered heart. Normal brain development," etc. while she was ruthlessly smashing my belly with her wand.
Thank you, lovely ultrasound tech, wherever you are.
Skeletor. I never thought of that one. I thought mine looked like the typical drawing of an alien. Or a chicken.
your boy and my boy? twins, clearly.
he's lovely. can't wait to see him with, um, skin. :)
Ultrasounds still freak me out, in the best way possible. I love looking back at them. Enjoy.
Glad it wasn't just me - we thought the same of our ultrasounds! We even got a spinal skeletor photo - looked like about the freakiest thing ever! Thank goodness for skin! hehe
AWESOME.
Aw! Hooray for beautiful boys in beautiful tummies!
Ultrasound pictures are amazing! Have you seen the 3-D ones? I think your little boy is going to be quite adorable :)
Ha ha ha...I remember those alien invasion moments. Congratulations. Hopefully you won't have to have conversations with Wonderbaby any time soon about how he got in there. Or how he'll get out. Though perhaps you could come up with some creatively euphamistic use of your PANTS pocket to illustrate.
He is beautiful! Congrats!
don't you just love ultra=sound pics.and to know that jack skelington is going to be a real live baby in months is so cool...stinkerbell had to have biophysical profiles done every two weeks to monitor her growth and even though i couldn't afford any pics to keep it was still awesome to see her growing and moving and just being .....LAVANDULA
Heh. The Mayor was called Baby Skeletor, too. So freaky!
I'm so excited for you, C.
xo,
J
Ours looks more like Smeagal, but yeah, that full frontal view is always freakish. On the plus side, the profile shot is absolutely angelic...
That is what we used to call Mon Ange... hmmmm, thirteen years ago...
At least Skeletor had a castle.
Skeletor! That is classic =)
Yep, the frontal view of the face is always a little creepy to look at. But knowing there are two little healthy eyes in there and a perfect little face makes it a little easier to look at, no?
I call mine Alien Baby!
Heh... we had one of those also. We ended up not showing it to people it freaked us out so much.
Love the first picture though!
I think he sort of looks like WonderBaby, dontcha think?
that's so precious! I used to call my son "the chicken wing" because I ate (vegetarian) chicken wings the night before I got the ultrasound. I swore it didn't look like a baby and that the radiologist who could see everything was on crack. I said are you sure that's my uterus and not my stomach cavity? Later on I had to get more ultrasounds and we got one of the best side views of his little face. Then I called him Charlie Brown and I still have that ultrasound pic framed next to one of his baby pictures. The ultrasound technology is fascinating!
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