Gareth's Anniversary Suprise...3D/4D Sonogram Session

I've been hinting about this for a while now.

Gareth has been pretty broken up about not being able to be here for all of the past 3 sonograms I have had. And me, wanting to do something really special for him for our anniversary thought about the 3D/4D sonograms and assumed we'd have to go down into Boston in order to have this done. However, with a little research and advance planning, I found a place here in the Portland, Maine area that's just opened! How fortuitous!

So I booked us in for an appointment this past Saturday and decided I'd surpise Gareth.

He was able to go to my prenatal appointment with me on Friday, which I've mentioned in another post, and that was pretty special. He was all smiles the rest of the day after being able to hear the baby's heartbeat. Just seeing him that excited about the doc's visit made me even more excited about Saturday morning.

Gareth knew we had to do something but didn't know what. He had no clue. And amazingly enough, I was able to keep my mouth closed about it.

So bright and early Saturday morning we drove out to AccuView Diagnostic Imaging and walked in and I finally told him what was going on. I kinda had no choice as there were brochures outside the door and the office and I didn't want him to find out on his own. I wanted to tell him.

I had a hard time not crying, but again, seeing his smile when I handed him one of the brochures made this so incredibly worthwhile.

Anyhow, we had a nice time, the staff there was so accomodating and explained how the technology and software made this type of sonogram different than a regular 2D sonogram.

Gareth held my hand through the entire time, and proved invaluable when it came to getting Gidget to move so we could get a decent view....something which was not the easiest thing to acoomplish!

She was not the most cooperative little thing. For the most part she insisted on keeping her knees up in front of her face. But as I mentioned, with plenty of prodding and pushing (good lord, you should see the bruises on Bellyzilla) we got her to face us. And she eventually dropped her knees long enough to get a few really good shots.

We received several photos at the end of the session as well as a 30 minute DVD and video tape.

I thought I'd share 3 of our favourites out of the photos, with you all. Look at those chubby cheeks! She's just precious though! Our little gem!

And with this first one, you can tell exactly what I mean about the knees always being right in the face...her nose is being smushed by her knee.







This was an incredibly special day. I'm so glad that the technology exists and that it's available to ordinary people like me. I would have happily paid five times what I did, in order to share something like this with Gareth.