Fuzzy lines on a screen and they call it a baby. Lovely.

I wish I could have learned what it had been like to watch my kids before their birth. Just in their mom's stomach. Unfortunately, such a thing was impossible in those days when they started coming into being. It was even impossible to accompany my wife and hold her hand when she was giving birth to our boys. Delivery rooms were taboo for men. So I envy a guy who was mentioned in a story written by Stephanie, living in New York. In her blog Greek Tragedy (she is a quarter Greek) she describes her experience with her first ultrasound. It's worth reading, this girl is talented in writing, expressing not only her joy but also the worries about the health of her child… oh, children, she is carrying twins. „Nothing is for certain. That's what's so hard about all this... for any of us, I guess. There are no guarantees in life.“ (I cut her story short.)

"It was our first ultrasound that wasn't intravaginal (I'm 13 weeks and 1 day along). They greased up my belly with jelly and began to roll across the small gourd that is now my stomach with a rolling paddle. The Suitor held my hand, and we watched. First we only saw one baby, which always scares me because I think, "why aren't they showing us the other one?" I wish they would show us both, then zoom in on one. It was "baby B," and it was asleep This is the lazy baby, or the "calm baby," definitely The Suitor's child. „Would you like to hear the heartbeat?" Wow. The screen went dark, and the room flooded with the sound of our baby's heart. Then we watched "baby A," my wild child, partying in mom's house. Kicking, waving, dancing, sucking it's thumb. Then they wiped me up, and I threw up Rice Krispies. This is usually how my day goes anyway. "

gourd = a type of large fruit, not normally eaten, with hard skin and soft flesh. Gourds are often dried and used as containers.
suitor = a man who wants to marry a particular woman
throw up = to bring food from the stomach back out through the mouth (it's a nice Oxford definition, isn't it?)
Rice Krispies (called Rice Bubbles in Australia) = a brand of breakfast cereal