Ultrasound Rapid Heartbeat

2008-04-09 Bambino at 10 Weeks 003, originally uploaded by jessica_beagan.

A view of the bambino, slightly blurry. The interesting thing in this image is the incredibly rapid heartbeat. At 10 weeks, you can see the heartbeat flickering in black and white, very rapidly. When they measured it, it came up at 179 beats per minute. That's something like four times what the average adult rate is. It's also nearly twice as fast as it was two weeks later when I had the nuchal translucency test.