My 30 week OB appointment!

Went to the doc today.  Blood pressure was excellent.  So far I have gained 12.5 pounds.  My glucose test result was 98, which was excellent.  These appointments tend to be pretty run of the mill for me.  No issues.  She did try another 3D scan in an attempt to get a better face shot.  But unfortunately, Mariele has her face right up against my placenta.  Plus she still loves to keep those arms and hands right there in front of her face.  It will be interesting to see if she does this after she is born!  With the issue of her face buried in my placenta, she is just a hard baby to scan.  To generate the 3D image, my doc has to separate the face from the placenta, and doing this causes distortion in the image.  So her nose and mouth look a little distorted.  With Analese, the issue on the ultrasound was having the cord run in front of her face.  Same deal where the ultrasonographer had to separate face from cord to generate the image and it caused some distortion also.  However, we did get better photos with Analese.  She came out pretty much looking like the pictures we brought home from her 3D u/s.  There is really only one picture of Mariele where I can kind of imagine what her face looks like.  My assessment is she has some facial similarities to Analese, but she has her own unique features.  Here are the photos, so try to make heads or tails of them!

Look on the left side of this image and you can see her eyes (kind of) and nose and upper lip.  That is her arm and hand to the right.  Her wrist is right at the level of her eye there.

This is the best shot of the face we were able to get.  You can see eyes and her hand semi-covering one of her eyes.  You can also see the nose, although it is distorted.  And then you can see the mouth (also a little distorted).

Well, we get to see her live and in person on January 20th!  And my doc may even try again.