Monday Memories- Parker's Ultrasounds

Today I decided to write about my favorite thing to do, Ultrasound. When I was in first grade I remember following a campus supervisor around at recess because she was pregnant. Even when I was 7 years old I was obsessed with pregnant women and I knew I wanted to do something in my life to be apart of that special and miraculous time of a woman's life! So, when I grew up and discovered ultrasound I knew that was where I belonged! 
My senior year I did a young women and excellence project based around learning about ultrasound and accompanied every pregnant woman I knew to her ultrasound appointments. I went off to BYU-I (no ultrasound school there-sad) But then ended up at UNLV and got my bachelors in medical imaging! The best part is that I was in clinicals the entire time I was pregnant and got to sneak peeks at my little guy AT LEAST once a week!

This is my second ultrasound at my first doctors appointment (the first one was at school). This was at about 11 weeks. He was flippin all over the place!! So cute!

This is at about 14 weeks when I couldn't stand it any longer and asked the girl I was working with to just scan me and tell me what I was having! I tried to wait to do it with Tanner but how could I stand it when I had access to an ultrasound machine all day everyday! He was a little bummed... but it was soooo exciting!!!

Here he is around 20 weeks. The best thing was doing clinicals at the perinatal center where my friends would practice 3D scans on me! I had to throw away sooo many pictures because I just had too many!

3 Days after the previous scan...

Same day (2D profile)

6 months along! He's filling out! Every time we measured him to see how big he was, he was so much bigger compared to the other woman's babies we scanned that were the same age!

A few days after the previous scan (2D profile)

Here's one of the last scans I got. He's kinda smiling- such a cutie! This was about 6 weeks before he was born.
I love doing Ultrasound! I'm still trying to land a job. I'm not too enthusiastic about leaving my baby but I didn't go to school for nothin' and I really do enjoy looking at babies and seeing the joy that fills the mother's eyes when they see their little ones! I'll let you know when I finally do start scanning and you can all come down and I'll show you your insides!