{a cleft journey} Ultrasound

This morning the fam and I headed down to the hospital to have our monthly look at little B’s face. We decided to take Payton with us since it was with the doctor and it was so funny to watch her reaction to what happens during an ultrasound. Needless to say we got plenty of “oohhhhs”, “eewwws” for the belly jelly, a “wow” when she saw him and plenty of repetitive “baby” statements. She is hilarious and I think she is going to be such a great helper when her little brother arrives in twelve weeks. This ultrasound was so much better and honestly way more assuring. I was a stress case but seeing his sweet face today made me fall in love with him. Many of you might think I should have already been in love with him but I didn’t have a connection yet, I know I am pregnant and feeling him kick me all.day.long  should be enough but it wasn’t. Well, until today. Seeing his face, with actual chub on it and not all translucent made it more real. We can see his features a lot better and it’s so funny to see how much he looks like P. The tech and doctor’s were right at my amnio though, he definitely has his mama’s chin! The cleft doesn’t look that bad, still at about a 2 mm tear so it isn’t that big. We are meeting with the actual cleft doctor on the 22nd so we will know more of what we shall expect at his delivery which is fast approaching and then another 4D ultrasound in a month to check on him again. I guess it’s kind of nice getting all of these 4D’s to see my little lamb. On another note, his kidneys look like they have evened out so we can stop worrying about that! yippee!