Who would have thought that there would come a day when you could sneak a peek into the womb and actually see the facial features of a fetus (say that three times fast for me, will you?)? Excuse me while I sound like an old-timer for a second, but seriously, the advances in technology continue to astound me, just as it did a couple of days ago when we were able to get a 3D ultrasound of our baby girl. 

Because she is, indeed, a girl. We saw, with our own eyes, all of the female-ness in a very blatant three-dimensional view. And now I can sleep soundly at night knowing that the nursery is very pink and thank goodness a female will inhabit that room, amen.

So, want to see how awesome this 3D ultrasound stuff is? It’s a little hard to decipher what’s in the photos at first, so I’ll do my best at describing each one. 

Shown here is a picture of her adorable little face, and she’s facing down like she’s looking at the lower left corner of the picture. It sort of looks like she is all bundled up in a blanket, though she’s really just squished in there with the placenta and all the other weird things within the womb that I am so naive about.

(Seriously, I think I must have skipped seventh grade sex ed because even as a women, myself, I am totally clueless about female anatomy. Duh.)

Anyway. Can you see her cute little button nose? And her eyes and her furrowed brow? And her little lips? 

Here’s another one:

This one is more of a profile of her face, again looking down at the bottom left corner of the photo. Do you see that nose again? That is the nose that I will gobble up every single day while I squish her cheeks and tickle her tummy and repeatedly chant NOM NOM, SQUISHY BABY, ME EAT YOU UP. 

Then we got to see another view of her:

Her feet! I cannot even describe to you how joyous yet stupid I felt when I saw these cute little things pop up on the screen. I was so caught up in the rest of her that when I saw these it was like I totally forgot that babies had feet and didn’t just learn to walk around on nubby little cankles. In the photo it’s hard to tell what all is going on in there, but you can for sure see a foot and toes on the left side of the picture.

Believe me, no one hates feet more than me (can you imagine my disgust of the The Bachelorette’s Tanner P.?), but my little girl has the cutest baby toes I have ever seen. They’re really long, too. Unfortunately I have to claim responsibility for that one.

We also discovered in some of the 2D photos that this girl has lots of hair! While this may or may not explain all of the heartburn I have experienced, it definitely means BOWS! HEADBANDS! and all other sorts of girlish hair paraphernalia.

It’s going to get a little out of hand. I’m just saying.