It didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would.
But there I was, straining at what would be, in any other context, considered television static. Dark, light and all the gray fuzz in between. Then, with a little help from the nurse, I caught a little pacman-esque blip in the center of the white spot which was in the middle of the dark blob—her tiny heart beating at 169bpm. (Editors note: Female gender pronouns a hunch.)
There’s our baby, a mere 15.9mm wide.
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