{"id":546,"date":"2006-08-30T21:10:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=314"},"modified":"2006-08-30T21:10:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T02:10:15","slug":"coolyet-freaky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Cool&#8230;yet freaky."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ultrasound today was phenomenal, but there&#8217;s something about them\u00a0that I find\u00a0a little freaky.\u00a0 Not the baby part, but the how-much-you-can-see-part.\u00a0 They actually measured everything from the kidneys\u00a0to the bones.\u00a0 We got to see Peanut&#8217;s tiny feet, face, arms, spine, stomach\u00a0and her big brain ;).\u00a0 It was very neat.\u00a0 Very worth it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thrilled that technological advancements now allow us to check on baby&#8217;s progress(whereas my mother just had to cross her fingers and hope for 40 weeks),\u00a0but I feel like we are almost given too many options nowadays.\u00a0 One of these options is the 3D ultrasound.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think the idea is neat, but it&#8217;s a bit scary to see as much detail as you do.\u00a0\u00a0Here are a couple\u00a0of non-Peanut examples that I\u00a0*borrowed* from the internet:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"3dultrasound.png\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/3dultrasound.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image313\" style=\"height: 194px\" height=\"194\" alt=\"3dultrasound.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/3dultrasound.png\" width=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool, but slightly&#8230;alien.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s worse.\u00a0 I think this may be a yawn, but it looks like something straight out of the movie <em>The Grudge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Ew.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"bigyawn.jpeg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/bigyawn.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image315\" style=\"height: 191px\" height=\"191\" alt=\"bigyawn.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/bigyawn.jpeg\" width=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0prefer the fuzzy, black-and-white, not-too-frightening vagueness of the\u00a0old school\u00a0ultrasound.\u00a0 Introducing the 20-week old Peanut.\u00a0\u00a0Now there&#8217;s a good-looking kid.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"ultrasound-august-30s.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/ultrasound-august-30s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image316\" style=\"height: 205px\" height=\"205\" alt=\"ultrasound-august-30s.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/ultrasound-august-30s.jpg\" width=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultrasound today was phenomenal, but there&#8217;s something about them\u00a0that I find\u00a0a little freaky.\u00a0 Not the baby part, but the how-much-you-can-see-part.\u00a0 They actually measured everything from the kidneys\u00a0to the bones.\u00a0 We got to see Peanut&#8217;s tiny feet, face, arms, spine, stomach\u00a0and her big brain ;).\u00a0 It was very neat.\u00a0 Very worth it. I&#8217;m thrilled that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[34,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}