Pregnancy Ultrasound, 2nd Round

On September 18, 2007, I accompanied Marissa to the OB-GYN and we had a 2nd ultrasound of the baby.

Note the erect penis of the 5 month gestational boy. They say he is at 23 weeks on the 40-week pregnancy calender, but that is calculated from the last menstruation, not from time of conception, so the baby is actually at about 21 weeks gestation.

This is a photo of his face. It is a bit hard to make out at first, but the bright white spot is on his forehead, and he has his right arm raised as if saluting. Perhaps he will be a soldier.

The heartbeat is at 167 beats per minute. Normal, the doctor says. Seems a bit fast for me.

Again, note the erect penis. The doctor said this is perfectly normal. I would say, “like father, like son”. We can’t tell at this point is he’s going to have an Irish sized wanger like me or a Filipino sized wanger yet, but I’m hoping he will be able to knock some guts loose by the time he’s in his late teens, just like his papa.

The boy’s weight was calculated at 3 ounces above average, and the standard deviation is 11 ounces, so he is about 0.27 standard deviations above average weight, which is perfectly fine by me.

I’m thinking about naming the boy “Horace O’Donal Turner, III”, after my father and my brother. My pop being Horace O’Donal Turner, Sr., and my brother being Horace O’Donald Turner, Jr. While “Horace” would be a weird name in America, it would be perfectly normal in The Philippines. Still, I think we would nickname him “Race”. Race Turner. His updated expected delivery date is January 6, 2008.

He had five fingers on each hand, and five toes on each foot, and I could not see any webbed toes (hoping for a champion swimmer), but I can accept a perfectly normal child.

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