I got to meet L’s baby (aka Baby J) last week at the ultrasound. It was truly amazing, in every tired clichéd sense of the word.

I was expecting a bunch of gray blobs that someone would try and convince me were a head and a foot, but it wasn’t like that. I couldn’t believe how much she moved, doing all kinds of fancy somersaults. She looked incredibly… human. Sticking her face right up to the camera, opening her mouth, sticking her thumb in… She even seemed to smile. Incredible.

The movement made it very obvious what was what. Saw lips, nose, the beating heart with all four chambers, the ventricles in the brain, the cerebellum, eyes, ears, umbilicus, toes, humerus bone, femur, spine, pelvis…

It was a really powerful and surreal moment, and lightspeedaunt had just been dumped less than 24 hours earlier, but I believe that they were tears of awe she was crying.