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... of a big 'ol baby!

Quinn and I met our new doctor yesterday. He is absurdly nice. Like: "Are you for real" nice. But all of my friends who go to him say that he really is just that wonderful. I'm not used to it, I guess. My previous doctor was a great guy and he was knowledgeable, but he wasn't overly... attentive.. might be the best word. So, anyway, this new doctor is great and, because it was our first visit with him, he AND his nurse did an ultrasound! We got to see the Babram after 12 long weeks with only abdominal boxing action as proof that there really was a baby in there. As usual, he provided us with really unphotogenic pictures, so here's the actual photo...

And here's the photo with some help...
He kinda looks like an alien with those deep eye sockets. But we were assured that it's just the ultrasound and all babies look like aliens in their pictures. He is also head down... which is great for delivery preparation, but not for picture taking.

Then they did measurements on some key areas of his body to see how he was developing. Here's a photo of the print out...
So his head circumference is pretty much on target (a little small, maybe). His abdominal circumference is HUGE (based on that measurement, his due date would be more than a week early). And his femur length is right on target. They use all of those measurements to determine their overall growth percentage and an estimated fetal weight. Because of that big, silly tummy, he's at a very large 4.75 lbs!! Our doctor said that he's estimating he'll be in the upper 7 to 8 lb. delivery range, which is really normal (but really scary for me). They also said that some weeks they grow faster in some areas that others. So hopefully his stomach will slow down and the rest of him will catch up and he will be normal, instead of above average.

It would be hard to fathom that Quinn and Anaka Smith (two of the "smallest" people we know) could produce an above average sized baby, unless something was wrong. We were assured that everything was fine, so hopefully we just caught him in a growth spurt.

Well, that's all for the baby logistics and stats blog. I'm sure it was highly entertaining :)
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