Do it yourself ultrasound

well, I was at my horse vet’s place yesterday fixing her printers and computer for her and she tried to get out of me the sex of the baby. I refused to tell her (cuz we’re keeping it a secret) and so as a joke she threatened to get out the horse ultrasound unit and scan me….lol.

So, just for fun we did 😉

I was holding the scan bit while she adjusted the buttons on the unit and I have to say that doing an ultrasound is a hell of a lot harder than it looks! I was standing up which probably didn’t help and it wasn’t as strong or as good quality as the hospital scans, but it was still kinda cool trying to figure it all out. The conversation between us was kinda amusing:

Mel: oh wow look that’s cool!
Vet: yeah it’s awesome isn’t it
Mel: I wonder what part we’re looking at?
Vet: I dunno….

hehe…….EVENTUALLY we found the head, quite low down and we did find the heartbeat and the baby’s spine. We never found the legs though, so no chance to peek between the legs. 🙂

It’s incredible how you can move the thingy and still be looking at the same picture. I didn’t quite get it. And if you move the thingy up and down, the picture goes side to side………….I think?

I have a new found respect for sonographers though, they make it look so easy. Guess they know what they’re looking for.