So we went in for the big ultrasound on Tuesday. Once again, I had to have a full bladder, and there are few things more uncomfortable than having someone press a large piece of plastic into your stomach with a full bladder.

Kidlet was not as active as it has been in the past, but it was still being, according to the tech, squirrelly. Part of me wants to be able to feel Kidlet, and part of me is dreading it, because I have a feeling that it will gleefully kick, punch, and head-butt every internal organ of mine it can reach.

Kidlet's skin is translucent and it has very few muscles at the moment, so it was really easy to see the skeleton. Group Health is kind enough to put a secondary monitor on the wall so the proddee can see what's going on.

There was a fantastic shot of the spinal cord -- you could see each vertebrae, and all of the ribs coming down. It was almost like a picture in an anatomy textbook.

The heart was pumping away, very quickly, and the tech got a really good shot of all four chambers, doing what they're supposed to do. The heart rate is also what it's supposed to be at this age, too.

"Baby's Urinary Tract" just struck me as an amusing way to put it. True, but amusing.

Lots of head shots, and we were assured that everything was where it was supposed to be.

Kidlet still had two arms and two legs, but now we could see the femur and the humerus. They were these big, long, glowing white sticks. Instead of being out of an anatomy book, they were out of a Halloween picture, because you couldn't really see what they were attached to.

I got a call from my OB's office yesterday, and I was assured that I did not have placenta previa, and that all of the vital stats that the tech had collected for Kidlet were, in fact, in the range of normal. So that's all good.

A statement of gender will wait until after the holidays.

I'm pregnant.

We've been trying for a bit, so it was a matter of time before one took, I suppose. I'm just about 14 weeks in, and I still mostly just feel sick instead of pregnant, but I figure that'll start changing soon, given that my body's starting to shift around.

So far as we're able to tell at the moment, the kidlet is as healthy as it can be, which is very good. It's too early for gender; we won't know that until late December. Kidlet will be popping out some time in late April/early May.

Really, there's not much more to tell at the moment, except for vital statistics that I'd rather not put down on the net for public consumption.

But yeah. I'm pregnant. And just a tad bit terrified. ;)

There is goodness.

Details will be forthcoming.

Edit: This is a non-child related announcement.

I did not make it into the Seattle Women's Chorus. However, I was told that the director thought I had a good voice, but was rusty, and that she'd love to see me try again.

Which is kind of what I was thinking anyway. Well, the rusty part. It's hard to hear your own voice, to know that you can do better, and not be able to do so.

Part of me is really sad, and I'm pretty sure that it's just sheer disappointment in myself. Part of me is actually a little pleased. Mostly because I'm not taking this criticism personally. I have a really big problem with taking non-personal things personally, and maybe it's because I'm not as emotionally invested in this Chorus as I could be, but I'm able to look at this this and go, "Okay, I can take this, learn from it, and move on."

*smile* This is also another kick to get me to synagogue-shop.