What to call it?

So I am struggling with what to call this "thing" in my stomach...it's not really a baby yet, and fetus sounds too scientific....I was reading my sister's blog (if you don't know, she is three days more pregnant than I am...with identical twins! How cool is that? FYI, her blog is at: http://jillianhickey.blogspot.com). Since she has twins, they are called "baby A" and "baby B", and they are most likely gong to be born before mine, then mine will now become "baby C". Particuarly fitting, since the ultrasound technician said she thinks it is going to be a girl, and no matter which names we find, we often come back to "Claire". So, "baby C" it is!

Anyway, don't always expect 3 posts a day, I just figured out how to get photos from our new digital camera to the computer, and how to work the scanner, so thought I would share some images.

1) Ultrasound scan

The nuchal folds (fancy way of saying the neck) are normal size, so the chances that the baby has Down's Sydrome or other chromosomal abnormalities is very low. I'll find out for sure in about 5 days.

2) My gut

Since this is what I looked like this summer:


you will obviously see that I have somewhat of a larger stomach at 14 weeks. The pics did not come out well, so I will take more later this week.