



Courtesy of Amanda Ellisĭuring the scan, the tech was friendly and kind, but eerily quiet. But for us, neither of those things happened. I counted down the days until I could bring home pictures of my son’s adorable little profile and hear everything was developing just fine. Leading up to the anatomy scan, I was excited. A baby boy! After 6 months of trying and one early loss, we were over the moon about starting our little family. It’s a common, well-intentioned question to ask expecting mothers, a question I had likely asked pregnant women and never given a second thought to… Until for us, the answer was, ‘No.’ My husband, Lyndon, and I were expecting our first child. “‘Ten fingers, ten toes?’ a coworker quipped when my husband returned to work following our 20-week ultrasound.
