{"id":839,"date":"2010-02-22T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2010-02-22T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:18:45","slug":"ultrasound-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Ultrasound Followup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we had another meeting with the midwife, and she went into the ultrasound results in a bit more detail. She confirmed that Davy is looking perfect in every way, but mentioned that a couple of other things had turned up on the scans: for one, I have another dermoid (benign) cyst, just like last time, although this time it&#8217;s on the other side. As with my last pregnancy, it most likely won&#8217;t cause an issue, but it&#8217;s something to monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this time around the placenta is in a good position, but the umbilical cord is showing what&#8217;s called a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Velamentous_cord_insertion\">velamentous insertion<\/a>. Wikipedia makes this sound a lot more alarming than the midwife did: she said that &#8220;The way we used to know about velamentous insertions was after the delivery; we&#8217;d look at the placenta and say, huh, it&#8217;s velamentous. But now that these things can be seen on ultrasounds, the doctors like to monitor it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the upshot is that I&#8217;m going to have more ultrasounds&#8212;which to be honest is kind of nice. I&#8217;m always happy to get another look at the wee one.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is, in profile:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4015\/4379832971_0206067199.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we had another meeting with the midwife, and she went into the ultrasound results in a bit more detail. She confirmed that Davy is looking perfect in every way, but mentioned that a couple of other things had turned up on the scans: for one, I have another dermoid (benign) cyst, just like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}