Isn't she lovely...isn't she beautiful

Corey and I went to my ultrasound appointment on Thursday--we would have posted pictures earlier but our scanner was not behaving so Corey had to get it working first.

Danica is very healthy. She is practicing breathing. Her heart, brain, stomache and kidneys all look healthy. And as you can see from this picture her spine looks good too:
The person told us her placenta is in a good location and that her umblical cord looks very healthy as well. She was very thorough which was wonderful.

They took her measurements--she is currently 4 pounds 14 ounces. They expect that she will be between 7 and 8 pounds when she is born. And we could see that she has hair on the ultrasound (this is very exciting for me since I was the baby who didn't have hair until I was like 2 years old). But Danica has so much hair we could see a curl in the ultrasound--unfortunately we didn't get a picture of that.

We also got to see a great view of one of her feet--and we were even able to count her toes. It was so much fun but we didn't get a picture of that. We did get another very cute picture of her profile. Ahh we are in love.

Danica was also a lot more cooperative for this ultrasound--she was looking up instead of at my spine. And this ultrasound person asked our permission to practice using the 3D ultrasound machine since she was new to this office and not quite used to the setup. So we got to get a couple more 3D pictures--and these show that Danica probably has Corey's nose. And that she is the cutest baby we have ever seen.


Corey also got to hear the heartbeat for the first time--and his face lit up. I don't think he was quite expecting it to be as neat as it was.

The only downside was that Danica was full breech--so I wasn't making it up when I said her head was invading my rib cage. She still has a couple of weeks to start moving to a head down position before they really start worrying. But if she doesn't the doctor went over the possiblity of c-section. So we are hoping she is more cooperative and starts moving around.