The child moves. I swear. And it’s not just Zoë and me feeling it, here is some real video proof!

It was pretty cool to do the ultrasound for multiple reasons. One is that the ultrasound includes copper imaging, so we can see movement color-coded; blue is away from you, red is towards you (don’t ask me why, but it’s flipped from actual doppler imaging). So you can see the color of the blood going in different directions in the umbilical cord as well as the heart.

Speaking of the heart, here’s the second really cool thing. Since there is no oxygenation happening in the lung, much blood doesn’t need to go there while the child is in the womb. So most of the blood goes directly from the right atrium to the left atrium (bypassing the right ventricle and the lung) through a hole between the two. Then the left ventricle pumps the blood through the body. We asked the doctor about this and he showed it to us! And now it’s posted here for you to see – it looks like a little flap going back and forth between the to atriums (cross-sectional top view) and shows up later in the video.

Enjoy!

PS. The clicking sound is when the doctor was taking pictures.