The Level 3 scan

Manish and i went to the sonographer yesterday, for what they call the Level 3 scan. It is suppose to show you all the facial details of the baby, you can take photographs and generally look at over all development of the baby. Now Baby Chowdhary is one helluva subborn bub. He/She conveniently turned breech, face down and bums up, and absolutely refused to have anyone of us have a good look at it. with much prodding and poking and requesing, he did show us one eye, half a nose, and what looked like a chubby cheek....my god, Manish and i cant get over the fact that this kid may have taken his cheeks after the mother! Blush blush ! I am always amazed at the extent that science has progressed. Back then, at our parents's time, none of this existed..and i wonder what mom-dad would be discussing, when we were inside them. The more we see, the more we want to see....how would ma-papa be discussing the average weight, fundal height, analysis on the blood supply etc etc...Its truly mind blowing. And then came the big question. Both Manish and i gathered are guts, and asked Dr Pandit on the gender of the child. we pleaded, cajoled, begged him to let us know...i even told him that if i didnt know, even he shouldnt know ! I mean thats not fair right...as parents, we should have the first right to know..not Dr Pandit who probably has no excitement to check out a poppee or peepee, as Manish puts it! But man, it would have been easier to sell a missile to Indian Army. This doctor did not budge. Infact, he filled us in with all the possible details, on why the govt considers sex determination illegal, how many documents he needs to submit to Civil Hospital because he is a sonographer, how surprised we will be to find out how many people actually try to coerce him into divulging so that they can get the female feutus aborted etc etc....and by the end of it, Manish and I were both subdued and lost.....well looks like Baby Chowdhary is going to be a real surprise till the end, no clue on whether its a boy or girl, and no clue on what it would look like!