Back home in China we had our first “pre-natal” examination which not only reconfirmed the pregnancy but also allowed a chance to ask all sorts of first-time expectant parent questions.
Questions like “What exactly are we supposed to be seeing in this Ultrasound?” Seriously, it’s 2009. We were supposed to have flying cars and A.I. by now.
Instead we’ve got doctors pointing at blobs and smears on indecipherable ultrasound images, and reassuring us that everything looks good. If you say so. Me, personally, I couldn’t get any information out of our sixth week ultrasound. I couldn’t even get a copy of the thing, but I’ve drawn it from memory and, yes, it looks like a normal, healthy black and white blob.
What I might’ve seen had technology not gotten in the way was about the size of a pinto bean, had a strong heart beating at around 150bpm, and looking less reptilian than in weeks gone past. Involuntary twitching is even causing movement, but nothing that could be felt from the outside.
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