First Glance

“Hello I’m here for my sonogram, my appointment is at 1:00PM”. Oh yes says the receptionist from the Johnson County woman’s clinic. “Here are your papers, just go back out that same door you just came in and make a right and enter room 120”. Okay, thanks I replied. As my mother Fe’lisa, Sister Tatiana and Cousin Ginger fallow behind me. We walk into room 120 and have a sit in the oversized clothed chairs in the waiting room.

As mother looks over to her right, she wears a dark blue t-shirt and dark blue shorts with some babyphat flip-flops on her feet, with her black hair combed straight down and says to me; I just can’t wait to see the my grand baby on that tiny little screen. I blush and reply with a happy tone, I know, I’m so excited, too bad I want be able to know what the sex is yet.

“Tatiana, you can’t run around in here baby love. Come sit by mommy”, says our mother Fe’Lisa. Tatiana age two just laughs and continues to play around in her little green and brown striped sun dress. “Ginger can you grab her for me” asks my mother. Ginger gets a

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hold of Tatiana and sits her in her lap. Ginger begins to bounce Tatiana on her right knee. After a few moments “okay girl, that’s enough” says Ginger as she sits Tatiana in the

chair to her right and starts to stretch out her body as if she did some heavy lifting. Ginger wears a white tank top, light blue denim jeans and pink sandals.

20 Minutes has passed and I look around the room searching for the ultrasound tech, wondering what’s taking so long. As I glanced the room I noticed there was a wood basket filled with magazines, sitting across the room next to a long dark wooded desk with no receptionist behind it.

Finally, Ms. Hickman says the ultrasound tech. Yes that’s me, I stated with a loud voice. “Will you fallow me please”. Can my family come too? “Sure” replied the short blonde haired ultrasound tech, holding a red folder in her right hand.

We enter this dimly lit room with a bed and two chairs on the right of it. On the left of the bed was a computer and the keyboard was gray and had a lot of switches on it. “You three can have a sit here and you hop on the bed Ms. Hickman”. As we all sit in silence for about two minutes the ultrasound tech says to me “okay Shakera left your blouse so that I can see your belly. Now I’m going to apply some warm gel onto your stomach so that we can see your baby”. I immediately lifted my top and allow her to apply the gel to my stomach. As the ultrasound tech moves the probe around with a little pressure to locate the baby I began look at the computer monitor anxiously to my beautiful baby’s tiny little body for the first time. “Here’s your baby “says the Tech. “Oh, my God, he or she is moving all around” I say with a little chuckle. “Wow neither one of

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my children moved around like that for me when I got my ultrasounds” say my mother. “Baby, baby, KeKe’s baby” says little Tatiana. “Your baby is in there having a ball”

Ginger says. “I will take a few pictures for you to have” I tell the tech thank you while still looking at my baby on the black and white screen. “Here is a towel you can wipe the gel off your belly” says the tech. As she handed me my baby’s first photo, I began to cry happy tears. “Ms. Hickman you go outside to the receptionist desk and schedule your next appointment”.

We all walk out the dim room and as I head to schedule my next appointment my family heads outside to start the car. Hello I need to make another appointment for September I tell the newly resurfaced receptionist. Okay how dose September 23, 2009 at 1:45PM work for you? That’s perfect I replied with joy.