We had our first ultrasound today. I’m 9 weeks along, and the baby measured perfectly, with a little heartbeat ticking away like crazy.
However, it looks like I might be having a Gummi Bear. Or a gerbil.
My next ultrasound will be in about 11 weeks. Hopefully he or she looks a bit more human by then!
Gerbil…definitely a gerbil. I’d have a word with your husband if I were you.
And, of course, congratulations!!
It’s got a TAIL!!!
Congrats to both of you. Here’s hoping everything is smooth like a slip’n’slide 
Yay! Congrats!
He or she does look like a gerbil… before my son was born, we called him “Mouse” because one of my books said, at one point, that the fetbryo had a tail. The image of a mouse popped into my head, and that was that!
Weird. I just saw the movie Species and now a doper is pregnant with a gerbil.
I think it’s a mouse. Or perhaps a ROUS? (it is an unusual size…).
Congrats!
Congratulations on your new hamster!
Just wait until the next ultrasound, though. If the baby is positioned the right way, you might be able to see its hands, feet, and facial profile. Seeing a little hand waving at you from the ultrasound screen is just indescribably amazing.
Congrats, but uhm…you should know – they don’t start looking human until about 10 or 11 years post-natal.
Oh, and they don’t act human until…well, actually, with some of them I don’t think they ever do?
I keed, I keed, congrats on the new gerbil!
FTR, fully expect to call the kid “gerbil” for quite awhile. The Littlest Briston looked like a little bean at the first ultrasound, and we’ve been calling her “Bean” ever since…
Heh. Congratulations!
My oldest just turned 21. Sonograms have come a loooong way since then. When I had my one (yeah, in those days they only gave you one) sonogram with her, it looked like a grape (the head) on a stick (the spine).
Newer sonograms are so much better!! 
Congratulations on the adorable gerbil!
You realize that you’ll have to gerbil-proof your home now?
If you buy him/her one of those gerbil balls to roll around in, you must block off all stair access, really.
Ask me how I know.
It’s the most adorable little blob-shaped fuzzy thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Congrats!
Congratulations! 
I have a cousin whose daughter is nicknamed “Beanie” because as far as they could tell from the first ultrasound, they were having a bean. They started referring to her as the bean / beanie before she was born and now everyone in the family calls her that.
Oh dear, I’m sorry that’s not a gerbil or a gummy bear. Unfortunately, that is a common intergalactic species designated polygeminus grex, aka a Tribble. They are really cute at first, but quickly take over your lives. My wife and I (er mainly my wife I guess) just had one last week. We spend several hours every day just on containment of the waste products it produces. Currently we have it appeased, but rest assured it is simply storing energy for it’s nightly preformance of an atonal reinterpretation of Wagners Ring series.
Congratulations. Of course I was being sarcastic, but as a brand new parent let me tell you what I have learned from one week. First of all, it is not nearly as hard as it seems. We have a pretty good rythm going. It is true that around 9 PM she does get inconsolable, but as long as we have all of her needs met we let her cry it out and she exhausts herself into a sleep so deep that I bet if we let her she would sleep all night. Get a pediatrician now because their spots for newborns fill up quickly. Also, sign up for any classes you are going to take now because those spots also fill up quickly.
If you are going to breastfeed, take classes and try and guess what type of trouble you might have. Anyone can breast feed, but some have a much more difficult time. You may have to suppliment at first, but it is important that you get the milk flowing ASAP after the baby is born so plan on pumping just to stimulate production. DO NOT pump before the baby is born as this can induce labor.
