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Growing a miracle

I was just looking back at all of our ultrasound pictures from the last few months and it's just crazy how fast our baby went from a cell to a real baby that's covering his eyes every time we try to get a look at him! 
We have the most amazing doctor. Even though we only pre-paid for two ultrasounds for the entire pregnancy (my insurance doesn't cover anything pregnancy related, so everything is out of pocket), he is doing one every single time we see him, without charging us. 
Here's a glimpse of our growing boy! 

This is my favorite picture of them all, because not many people get a picture like this. 
It's our 5-day old embryo, right before he was placed back into the mothership on August 22nd! 
I remember looking at this picture many times it the days that followed, not knowing if it would stick and praying that it would. Modern Medicine is amazing!

Ich habe mir gerade all unsere Ultraschallbilder von den letzten Monaten angeschaut und es ist einfach verrueckt, wie schnell unser Baby von einer Zelle zu einem richtigen Baby, was immer seine Haende vor die Augen haelt, wenn wir ihn anschauen moechten, gewachsen ist.
Wir haben einen super Arzt. Wir haben nur fuer zwei Ultraschalle waehrend der gesamten Schwangerschaft bezahlt (meine Versicherung bezahlt ueberhaupt nichts was mit Schwangerschaft zu tun hat, von daher muessen wir alles in bar bezahlen), aber er macht trotzdem bei jedem Termin einen Ultraschall, ohne uns das in Rechnung zu stellen. 
Hier ist ein kurzer Rueckblick auf unseren kleinen Jungen!

Dies ist mein allerliebstes Foto, denn nicht viele Menschen haben so ein Foto.
Es ist unser 5-Tage alter Embryo, ein paar Momente bevor er zurueck in meine Gebaermutter plaziert wurde, am 22. August!
Ich kann mich noch gut daran erinnern, wie ich viele Male in den darauffolgenden Tagen dieses Foto angeschaut habe und nicht wusste, ob es funktionieren wuerde und gebetet habe, dass es das wuerde. Moderne Medizin ist erstaunlich!


This picture is from the same day. If you look very closely, you can see a white dot on the left (they placed the arrow on it for us to see), which is the same embryo as above, the exact moment it was transferred into my uterus. Crazy, right? 

Dieses Foto ist vom gleichen Tag. Wenn ihr ganz genau hinschaut, dann koennt ihr den kleinen weissen Punkt auf der linken Seite sehen (wo der Pfeil drauf gerichtet ist), was der gleiche Embryo wie oben ist, in dem genauen Moment wo er zurueck in meine Gebaermutter plaziert wurde. Verrueckt, oder?


Our first ultrasound, the embryo is now 6 weeks old. I remember laying on that table, tears streaming down my face, because I couldn't believe that it had actually worked, that there was a baby growing inside me!

Unser erster Ultraschall, der Embryo ist nun sechs Wochen alt. Ich erinnere mich gut daran, wie ich beim Arzt auf dem Tisch gelegen habe, und mir Traenen herunterliefen, weil ich einfach nicht glauben konnte, dass es tatsaechlich funktioniert hatte, dass dort wirklich ein Baby in mir heran wuchs!

8 week ultrasound at our first OBgyn visit. Baby still looks like a blob, but we sure loved our little blob!

Unser erster Ultraschall mit unserem neuen Frauenarzt in der 8. Woche. Das Baby sieht immer noch nach nichts aus, aber wir liebten es bereits jetzt schon!

This was my favorite ultrasound so far, at 12 weeks. We saw the baby "dancing" and "waving" and it looked like a real baby now! This was the ultrasound where our doctor made his really early guess that we're having a boy! And he was right! 

Dies war bisher der beste Ultraschall, in der 12. Woche. Wir konnten sehen, wie das Baby in mir "tanzte" und "winkte" und es sah nun wirklich wie ein richtiges Baby aus! Das war auch der Termin, wo der Arzt einen sehr fruehen Verdacht hatte, dass wir einen Jungen bekommen werden! Und er hatte Recht!

14 week 3d Ultrasound to find out the gender. Our little one looks kind of like an alien, but he sure is cute! 

3d Ultraschall in der 14. Woche um das Geschlecht heraus zu finden. Unser kleiner Mann sieht ein bisschen aus wie ein Alien, aber er ist auf jeden Fall suess!

18 week ultrasound. We got a ton of pictures, but none of them were very good, because they took more pictures of the organs than anything else! :)

Ultraschall in der 18. Woche. Wir haben eine Menge Fotos bekommen, aber die meisten waren nicht besonders toll, denn sie haben hauptsaechlich Fotos von den Organen gemacht! :)

I can't wait to see how much he has grown when we go back at 20 weeks! 

Ich freue mich schon auf unseren naechsten Termin in der 20. Woche, und zu sehen, wieviel er diesmal gewachsen ist!

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  1. I love the one of the divided cells, I'm so glad for modern medicine!

    I had 6 scans so far at 6, 7, 9, 12, 15 and 17 weeks. I paid a total of almost $300 for the 4 private scans, 9 week was included in my treatment and 12 week was free on national healthcare. But the private ones were worth every penny to me!
    I've got the big 20 week scan next week, that's when they look at organs here in the UK and will have another guess at the gender, though the sonographer at 17 weeks seemed pretty confident she saw girl parts :-)
    After that I'm not scheduled to have any more...I'm sure I'm going to find an excuse for another private scan though, Aniversary, Valentines or Easter maybe ;-)

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