{"id":1115,"date":"2003-04-11T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/04\/alien-blobs.html"},"modified":"2003-04-11T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-11T07:33:00","slug":"alien-blobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/04\/alien-blobs.html","title":{"rendered":"Alien Blobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went in yesterday for our ultrasound. I thought it would be about a fifteen-minute affair, but we were there for about an hour. Very thorough. Checking the kidneys, the heart, the brain, the spine, the bone structure. All there. Ten fingers, two nostrils, one mouth, and a brain. At least that’s what I was told. Really, to me, it just looked like one alien blob. \"Baby(The technician said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the heart. And there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the brain,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to which, of course, both Adam and I had the same thought: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All we need now is courage,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I said, and Adam continued, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have the entire The Wizard of Oz<\/i><\/a> cast.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) They said the spine looks terrific, and I made sure there was no tail on the kid. The feet are nice and straight (this was necessary to check as the Tweedle Twirp was born with little club feet and had to spend her first years of life in casts and braces). But there was one odd mutant factor that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not quite sure how to deal with. My daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmy beautiful, feminist daughter who will travel the world three times over, have Martha tendencies, and yet be the first female NFL player (as a kicker, of course, for the Miami Dolphins)\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmy wonderful daughter is a mutant. Apparently, my daughter has a penis. (Which reminds me of the Mel Brooks\/Marlo Thomas skit<\/a> from Free To Be … You And Me<\/i><\/a> in which Mel Brooks says [or something awfully close to it], \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look! Ugggh. A girl with a penis. Yuck. Disgusting.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Now, don’t worry, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll love my mutant just as much as I would love my non-mutant. This will just take some mental adjustments, but I think I can make this hurdle. Babies with penises can be feminists, too, you know.<\/p>\n

By the way, we are not 100 percent sure about our name choices (last name included) and we are no longer going to discuss them with anyone<\/i>. You may refer to him as Baby Brown Medros for the time being or by the nickname we’ve been calling him, if you happen to know what that is. The baby name will be announced when he makes his first actual appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went in yesterday for our ultrasound. I thought it would be about a fifteen-minute affair, but we were there for about an hour. Very thorough. Checking the kidneys, the heart, the brain, the spine, the bone structure. All there. Ten fingers, two nostrils, one mouth, and a brain. At least that’s what I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}