To my surprise, the doctor informed me that my wife is 32 weeks and 3 days pregnant.
My first question was, "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Well, let's start the gender reveal party. It's time to shoot the shotguns and flares up in the air, cause shit's about to get crazy.
Whoever shoots the balloon filled with blue or pink explosives wins.
Rock Paper, Scissors. Scissors wins!
You get to use the scope.
Actually, gender reveal parties are dumb and shooting guns up in the air isn't what civilized people do. Don't start forest fires.
Besides, gender is a construct and a myth and my child is non-binary.
Just kidding. Can't you tell?
Did you know you can't even find out the gender until after something like 18 weeks in Korea? The doctors occasionally drop hints before then which can be fun.
I decided I won't blog pictures of his wang just yet never, so unless you can tell by blobby 3D ultrasound photos, you'll have to take my order for it.
I hope you enjoyed the gender reveal party. Seriously, though those are just silly. In anycase, we are painting the house blue and filling it with toy soldiers and monster trucks.
But back to reality.
I'm gonna be a father soon.
Time to enjoy my freedom while it lasts.
But like any expecting parent to be, I am already getting nervous. Hospital visits, research, reading stuff, etc. Fortunately Korea is desperate to raise the birth rate (ie. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-09/world-s-lowest-fertility-rate-to-get-even-lower-korea-reports) and has first-rate, affordable prenatal care.
My wife decided to name our fetus "Kini" because I was growing zucchini's when we actually found out around 6 months ago.
For those who don't really read Korean, The top one is mass (he is in water and it's an estimation, so I can't bring myself to say weight), followed by head diameter - BPD, head circumference, abdomen circumference and finally thigh bone length.
As you can see for 32 weeks everything is normal. However, he does have quite long legs and a smaller than average head. No big deal, but as a new father, it had me asking questions.
Why the big legs? Will he be a giraffe? Maybe, but my wife and I are quite tall. Also, can't really complain.
Why the small head? Well, this is where it gets speculative. No one wants a freakishly small cartoon super villian head. So, I asked. Actually, 30% is compared to babies with 100% Korean ancestry. and it is within 1 SD of the norm for that anyway so we are far out of any real risk category. So it's just because he is probably mixed-race (phew) and Koreans have bigger heads. This is statistically speaking according to a doctor who has personal experience measuring thousands of Korean baby heads for genuine medical purposes. He is just stating observable facts. And I'm relieved.
Here was a picture we took on New Year's Eve at the public hospital. Did you know Koreans are 1 year old when they are born? My newest niece (wife's bro's kid) was born on December 17th and is already 2, lol. Back to Back new Grandma for my MIL.
