Meet Liam Christof

Today was the much anticipated 20 week ultrasound. This is an important one because it's the first one where the baby is more proportionate and it's possible to find out the sex. We were relieved to hear that all of the measurements are in the normal range.

Darlene, our very good friend and nurse/midwife said this was a boy from our visit at 7 weeks. She said that when there is no morning sickness it is statistically more likely to be a boy than a girl and the heart rate has typically been in the boy range. Today confirmed her suspicions and we have a little boy!

Meet Liam Christof! The white matter is the brain. If you look at the head and imagine the face of a clock, look at 5:00 to see the profile of his face. We think it may be the beginning of a Bunn chin.

He is already saying, 'Come on Mom and Dad! No more pictures. I'm hiding my face!'

Really crude editing job
(one day I will get real tools and not just use a touch pad)
Here's the little guy end to end

We said we were not going to share the name, but we both agreed that when we saw the images today this felt like our baby for the first time and we wanted to share the name.

We have chosen the name for a few reasons. The simplified answer is because we like it. But if you want more details, we wanted names that both native English speakers and native German speakers could pronounce. We also wanted to pick names that were significant to our family and faith.

'Liam' is an Irish name of Gaelic descent which comes from old German. It is short form of 'Uilliam' in Gaelic and 'William' from the German 'Wilhelm'. Wilhelm was Opa Janke's name and we wanted to remember him. The name means 'will, desire, helmet or protector' from the Gaelic and in Hebrew means 'my people' or 'I have a nation'.

'Christof' is To's brother's name and we wanted to name him after his Onkel Christof. In German 'Christof' means 'the Christ-bearer' or 'Christ-carrier'. Since these names are significant to our family and faith, we decided to name him Liam Christof.

We didn't expect to get 3D images today but we both agreed this really let us 'see' Liam for the first time.

We are grateful that everything appears to be normal and healthy. 20 weeks (ish) to go!