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Ultrasound Bookmark
FOUND by Adrienne
in Chicago, Illinois
I found this in a young adult book at my library. I wonder if the person who left it was using it as a bookmark and forgot it (which still begs the question why you'd use an ultrasound picture of a baby for a bookmark, but to each their own, right?), or if they left it deliberately, and whether the person who left the picture was one of the parents or just a relative or friend. I'd guess it was a teenager, because of the section the book was in, but you never know. I just wonder if there's going to be one less picture in a kid's baby book because someone forgot.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
That's a really weird find. Kinda square.
The only reason we know it's supposed to be a "baby" pic is because it is labelled as such. Personally I've seen more baby-shaped things on a sonogram of an ovarian cyst. Maybe that's why the person left it behind so easily...nothing recognizable as a protohuman there.
Aaaaand I get "28x15" again. If only Found would recognise me when I sign in...
The "baby" should be born by now. Since the date on it is February 2, 2007.
It's okay. If anything this is a better site for a kid's sonogram than some scrap book. A celebrity even before they came out of the womb!...if you know they ever came out. Ahem.
Well, it's a book baby. I can't believe you took the sonogram out of the mother-book! That book wanted to look at it. That's why the baby is such a weird shape. It's a book. -Well, only a book-foetus, but still...-
am I the only one who finds it some what disturbing to find an ultrasound in a young adult book?
the image of a girl reading a Nancy Drew book while waiting for her ultrasound is sad.
assuming she's the target age for the book)
if you're not mature enough to be reading from the normal adult section of the library, you're not mature enough to be having babies.
...which come to think of it would exclude a large percent of the adult population from reproducing as well.
(p.s, "adult section of the library" that's adult as in grown up, not pornographic)
Umm... That's the strangest shaped uterus, if that is in fact a "baby' ultrasound...[it's marked "baby", but should it say "embryo"?]
I'm 16 weeks preg right now, and the uterus is like a pear shape, unless of course that uterus is flipped or on it's side?
Strange...
Saw the big ultrasound O ... and I thought it was an ultrasound of Oprah in utero.
oh, and
@ monkey ... I deal with "dirty books" in my library - but that just means that they need a good vacuum cleaning or dusting.
I found an ultrasound baby pic in a thrift store book once. The pregnancy was rather far along, and,"It's still a boy!" with an arrow pointing to a certain nub was printed on the picture. I sent it in to Found, but I guess they didn't deem it to be entertaining enough. Ah, they don't seem to like anything I send in. : -(
Hey! I'm from Chicago and so is this Find. Today is my birthday and if this fetus is 2 months old in this picture, maybe today is the baby's first birthday. Wow!
Dang! So THAT's where I left my cellphone!
Where's the baby? It looks like a cinder block on the ocean floor.
That looks more like a blighted ovum, than a uterus/embryo/baby/fetus. "Baby" may be what they were looking for, but that doesn't mean it's what they found.
WOOO HOO!! HAPPY BDAY NIGHTINGALE!! (from "all of us!") You're awesome!
Umm, did anyone see the embedded ads for some online university (highlighted in green) on the word BOOK in the Finder's blurb and DEAL in Librarian's post? They were there until I signed in, now they're gone. Found, do we have HTML capabilities again?
The baby is the little blip between the white flower shaped thingie ma bobs. This makes me think of .. was it 2001, a Space Odyssey, with the apes worshipping the Monolith? (I fall asleep within fifteen minutes every time I try to watch that movie. Sorry. Now Smallbear will probably yell at me.)
Mom: "Can you tell if it's a boy or a girl?"
Nurse: "I'm afraid we have some bad news, ma'am. It's a Fig Newton."
Happy Birthday Night in gale!
Perhaps.... it was like on Postsecret. "This is the only picture that will ever be taken of you." It would be very sad if that were the case, but I guess it's possible.
Oops, I feel a bit silly seeing as how I totally missed the baby in the top right corner.
Looks like it needs a nipple cover! Someone call Victoria's Secret.
Baby squarepants!
Happy Birthday Nightingale! I hope you have a FUN and HAPPY day! Is it possible that this book baby Fig Newton was being born right on this very day a year ago? Yeah, probably. Knowing Found.
Whoa, Chrome, did you really see green highlights on certain words, leading to strange places??? So weird! I hope one leads to a birthday party!
Adrienne in Chicago, are you out there?
What was the title of the book?
Congratulations! You and Sponge Bob will be having a baby!
I know alot of women who have trouble turning off the television in their uteri.
Happy birthday, Nightingale!
It's a tumoooorrrr...
I went to the ER for stomach pains last year, and they did an ultrasound-- non-pregnancy related. Maybe the picture is mislabeled, and we are all really looking at someone's tumor/cyst/ulcer.
She's giving birth to a Mooninite!
I had LOTS of u/s with my pregancies and some of them weren't very exciting, like this one. The two little white stars/asterisks/things are marks paced by the u/s technician. They may be measurement marks or location indicators. They could be measuring the entire length of an extremely small (young) baby, or they could be marking the location of certain body parts. The big black smudge is just an area where the ultrasound wasn't picking up anything at that exact moment. A split second earlier or later would probably have shown something where the black smudge is.
congratulations, its a rock!
Janelle wasn't real thrilled when her parents shared the news about "a little brother or sister" with her. Thoughts kept spinning through her head: aren't they smelly and NOISY? where is it going to sleep? I mean, jeez, I'm the only one of the kids who doesn't already share a bedroom. Crap, I guess I'll have to share MY room and I'll NEVER get any reading done then!
So, when Janelle's parents mentioned at breakfast that they were going to her doctor (again!) today, the only part that was interesting to Janelle was the part about "and she's going to take a picture of the baby in mom's tummy."
Well, maybe, that'll be something. But YUK! what was that square thing? A fig Newton? Sponge Bob's little brother??
So Mom pointed out the parts she could remember from the doctor's explanation; and Janelle asked if she could have the picture.
She used it as a bookmark. And left it in the middle of the last library book she ever got to read in peace in what used to be her own bedroom.
And that's the truth.
LOL Villin.. when you said "where's the baby?" I read it in the voice of the Dwarf that SnowWhite gave to Fiona as a baby shower gift in <B>Shrek the Third</b>... "..where's the baby?"
(just experimenting with the html there- I figure if I'm seeing embedded hyperlinks, maybe we could use it.. guess not.)
I haven't been seeing any working <html> except for the names of the folks signed in.
Everytime someone wants to show me their ultrasound pictures (and they invariably seem to be holding the picture in one hand and a cigarette in the other, although maybe it's the just the class of people I work with) I always want to say, "Uh, how about if I wait until it's done?"
My parents better not be having another baby. I refuse to grow up with middle child syndrome!
I've been cruising around in the past few days' finds, and have seen random words hyperlinked. This is the first day I've seen them, and this is the only site it's happening on, not sure what the source of it is.. is Found embarking upon a new advertising adventure? Would they go away if I deleted my cookies from today? no time to experiment with it at the moment.
Has everyone seen Mars Attacks! ?
the later term ultrasounds of my progeny looked like the freakin' martians from that movie. Hilarious! I ask you, sweetie pea, how could you NOT want to see THAT??!
It's not a baby, it's a Jaws-eye-view of a lilo. na-na. na-na. na-na na-na na-na-na-na naaaaaa
The baby is not the large black thing. If you look, there are two markers. The black thing is most likely the mother's bladder (very full- they tell you to come on a full bladder to make baby show up better). Above that, there are 2 markers and between them is something white and sort of glowing.
That's baby's heart.
I'd guess baby is at about 8 or 10 weeks gestation. This was probably the first ultrasound that many doctors do to get an accurate due date.
I didn't save this one, either, for my kids. You can't really see anything, anyway. They're no fun. lol
Congratulations! It's a Riverside Shakespeare!
Congratuations! You're the proud parents of a piece of cereal!!
Happy happy happy happy Birthday Nightingale!
Chrome I'll only yell at you if you haven't read
"Catch-22" yet! (It was you I told to read that book, wasn't it? If I remember correctly it had been sitting in your bathroom for years unread. Am I right?) And you must stay awake for your next viewing of "2001:a Space Odyssey" it's worth it!
Librarian thanks for taking over the task of writing stories based on the day's Find. Now I don't have to....
happy bday, night.
Every time I am shown one of these ultrasound things, it is worse than a television without any reception. At least you can find poltergeists in the television... We had our dog u/s-ed a few years ago for her pups, and the vets could have told me she was having 4 bouncing baby Kangaroos (Joeys for the Aussies) and I would have had to believe them. "Oh here's the head..." umm... yeah ok...
they're herrrrrrreeeee..... (NO really, they are. 4 pups, super healthy, 4 years old now.)
Thank you for the nice birthday wishes Chrome, Clover, Joh(n), Turbo, Cubby and Lars!
And thank you James and Jason, cuz I just know y'all keep our birthdays posted on your big calendar and send out these special birthday Finds just for us. (Ok, I'm just being delusional, now....haha!)
@Experienced in Such Things: see? I knew it wasn't far-fetched to think this baby shared my birthday. What's more is that St. Francis Hospital is in Evanston, Illinois (just north of Chicago) and I was born at Evanston Hospital just 5 miles up the road from St. Francis. So, hey hey! (Ok, no one cares. Too bad.) 8-p
... Monkey.
Or, at least I don't find anything unusual about it. I have several "young adult" books on my shelves - some that are cherished childhood memories that I reread in times of stress, others (such as the ::coughTwilightcough:: books) that I picked up out of sheer boredom and found myself addic-- I mean, vaguely interested in. Last but not least, there is the possibility - assuming the person reading the book was in fact the same person who had the ultrasound - that she may have been someone like me who NEEDS to have a book at hand, or die of boredom. There have been times I've forgotten to bring my own book, or finished it before I expected, and have been reduced to reading my son's comic boo-- oh, I mean "graphic novels."
So don't get all "what is the world coming to" just yet - even if the ultrasound belonged to the person who was reading the book, it doesn't necessarily mean she was 12.
humph. @ Experienced: having kept the ultra-sound I had from one of my pregnancies and having had a very full bladder, there was no square-shape in my ultrasound, indicating my full bladder.
I have seen lots of ultrasounds and haven't see one like this (not that I am a tech) but this looks weird. I hope everything was ok (maybe that is why it was stuck in a book).
@Lolita-
Depending on the position of the mother during the Ultrasound and how the ultrasound was taken, there can be all kinds of funny shames.
It looks to me like she was maybe on her side (possibly because the bladder was SO full it was completely covering baby when she lay flat) or this could even be a vaginal ultrasound where they use what I have forgotten the real term for, so I'll call "the big dildo camera thingie."
It looks perfectly normal to me, although different from what you may have had.
In a different St. Francis Hospital (or who knows, maybe the same one, since there's no city on the ultrasound print out) I lost a "baby" and a fallopian tube to an ectopic pregnancy.
That sucked.
OZZY says "It could be an *EMBRYO*"...but then ZAKK WYLDE said, "NO..Uh-uh..I think it's a *STILLBORN*."
Then OZZY replies..."OH-YEAH...*CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE*"
No offense to ANYONE...just some names of songs that OZZY sings..
But the FIND looks like a LIMA-BEAN to me?
@you're the only one...
you know I specifically added "Assuming she's the target age for the book".
because I KNOW adults often read books targeted at a younger audience, and so no one would jump to same conclusion about my post that you did.
but I guess you Chose to ignore the "assuming she's the target age" part because telling someone they are wrong is more fun.
(p.s, I also wasn't saying "look what the worlds come to", only that I found the idea of someone the age for a book like "Nancy Drew"(my chosen example) getting an ultrasound, a sad one.)
My thought was that big brother or sister had been given a copy of the ultrasound pictures. My mom gave me one of my little brother's pictures and I posted it on my bulletin board (of course I was 20 at the time, but younger kids could enjoy it, too).
Also, in ultrasounds all babies look like Alfred Hitchcock or Winston Churchill. That is all.
Off topic!! I'm so excited... the first time I've tried to log-in in decades (okay, just a long time) -- and it worked!! whooHOO! Hi FoundFolks - I missed you!!
Happy Birthday Night!! (tho' now late I guess.) And (no matter what other people say this ultrasound looks like) I don't think your ultra-sound would have been square like this!!
No question is being begged here.
http://begthequestion.info/
Thanks, Camelia! I've not often been labeled as "square" even though sonagrams weren't invented when I was a fetus.
Wow, that "Beg the Question" website was informative. I don't think I ever use that phrase, but I'll sure remember when I hear it next.
Are you sure this isn't an entrance to the subway?
wow, i'm surprised nobody really understands what this picture is. the black area is the sac that the baby "lives" in. the stars are a measurement tool used to determine the age of the fetus. this baby looks way too small for the size of the sac. maybe that's why this was left in a book...