Tickled Pink

There Water Babes was floating on the screen punching, kicking, squirming, being difficult to measure just like Luke, with all the right parts, weighting in at a whopping 7oz, my healthy baby girl!!

Of course the day was not without a little emotional irony. Vladi's worst memory of the day we lost Luke was the room with the big ultrasound and the "best in the business" ultrasound tech. He was an interesting looking man, that I did make mental note of, but I was too busy being in labor and denying that anything this crazy was happening to us. Do believe I could pick him out of a line up, but Vladi.......Vladi could pick him out of a crowd of 1000's on a foggy rainy night. His very image is burned in his mind forever.

So there we sat in the dim lit room at the BBL's office waiting for the ultrasound to begin. Nervous, I thought I was going to puke, Vladi sitting there ringing his clammy hands. The door swung open, and there stoodthe man that can stop Vladi in his tracks...lit from behind like he was some Godly creature. I turn to look at Vladi to make sure he was still sitting in the chair, as I waited to hear the thump of him hitting the floor or the thump of Vladi's fist conncting with this poor man's face.

"Hi, I'm Mr. G, it's nice to meet you," he says.....I couldn't help myself but to laugh slightly and respond, "Ooooohhhh Mr. G, we've met before, on the worst day of our lives, (insert continued talk-laughing with certain discomfort), but today we hope for better news." As I said before Mr. G is a bird of a slightly different color, so I don't think he really got what I was saying, nor knew how to respond. I let an awkward beat or two pass not knowing whether to further explain myself....I guess I hoped he had his ESP turned on that day, and would magically know what the heck I was rambling on about.....I wasn't that fortunate.

So he continued on with the ultrasound. I held my breath as saw all her organs and such, and marked them off my mental check list. I waited trying not to stop him, so I could run the to bathroom and loose whatever was in my stomach.......I waited for the moment he would excuse himself to go get the BBL and the room would fill with people as we were crushed again......

But it never happened, we made it too the end of the exam, and he printed us pictures and tells us our babes is a girl. So me, Vladi, Luke and Water Babes are not defined a room, or by an ultrasound or even Mr. G......they will not seal her fate or ours....that is one thing I am sure of.