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About 12 weeks ago, our grand daughter sent electronic copies of the 3D ultrasound pictures taken last June 30th. At the time, she also sent us a framed image of the ultrasound seen here that has been hanging on the wall above my desk in the office.

Slideshow image: click to alternate between pix.

Now that the baby is here, we saw the first images of him on the Book of Face and damned if he doesn’t look just like the 3D ultrasound that we’ve been seeing in the office for a couple of months. You can click on the image at the right to alternate between the 3D image and one taken yesterday in the hospital.

Medical instrumentation and technology have progressed to the point where we can get a preview of the little button nose, the pudgy cheeks and the shape of his face. Damsel and I can hardly wait until we see him in person next month sometime.

Our granddaughter had her prenatal 3D ultrasound scan yesterday. She said “Hey guys. I’m 205 days pregnant. That means, only 75 days left.” She emailed me a set of the images.

This is the face of our first great grandson as seen in his mother’s womb with the aid of advanced ultrasonographic techniques. I got curious about the technology, so I looked it up; there was a brief description on Wikipedia.

From Wikipedia:

3D ultrasound is a medical ultrasound technique, often used in obstetric ultrasonography (during pregnancy), providing three-dimensional images of the fetus.

There are several different scanning modes in medical and obstetric ultrasound. The standard common obstetric diagnostic mode is 2D scanning.[1] In 3D fetal scanning, however, instead of the sound waves being sent straight down and reflected back, they are sent at different angles. The returning echoes are processed by a sophisticated computer program resulting in a reconstructed three-dimensional volume image of the fetus’s surface or internal organs, in much the same way as a CT scan machine constructs a CT scan image from multiple x-rays.