I’m thinking about screenprinting it onto a t-shirt

In the immortal words of the fast-talking ultrasound tech:  “Well, she’s definitely above average, but she’s not massive.”

Isn’t that just what you want to hear about your little girl?  “She’s not massive.”

But she is, indeed, above average.

Here’s the hard data:

On the day of the ultrasound (yesterday), I was 33 weeks, 6 days along.  Every measurement they took put the baby at 35 weeks, 1 day.  But they aren’t changing my due date.  She’s just a little over a week bigger than the average fetus.

She weighs approximately 5.6 pounds.

She’s (sit down for this one) around 18.5 inches long.

As the tech said, “Heck, you could have this baby tomorrow and be just fine.” 

Other things we learned:

Yep, definitely a girl.

She’s currently head down with her spine against my left side and her legs stretched across me.  This is explains why I’ve been feeling like I’m getting punched in the bladder while being kicked in the right ribs.  That’s because I actually am, in fact, being punched in the bladder and kicked in the right ribs.  (Another tech quote: “Woah.  Those are some long legs.”  See?  I told you that it wasn’t normal for her to be kicking my side waist like that.) 

From the profile shot, it appears that she has my husband’s nose.  Which isn’t a bad nose, it’s just a, um, distinctive one.  It’s a nose that looks great on a 6′5″ man.  I’m just concerned that it might not quite fit on a little girl face.  But who knows?  Could be cute.

From the 3D construction, we can see that she has fat cheeks.  Really fat, pinchable baby cheeks.  Those come from me.  I think I carried half my weight in my cheeks until age 4 or so and my face was continually bruised from overenthusiastic grandmother-types.

The tech claims he saw a cleft chin.  I couldn’t see it.  Also, there are no cleft chins on either side of our family.  Whatever.  Maybe it was just a shadow cast by the gigantic schnozz.

My low-lying placenta has cooperatively moved up and out of the way, so I should be good to go with a natural birth.  If I can manage to push out this little mutant.

Sigh.  “Not massive.”  That’s encouraging, right?  At least a little encouraging?

PS- She is totally the cutest child ever.  Even with the nose.