11 Things Your Baby's Ultrasound Photo Looks Like and 1 Thing It Doesn't

You've been handed your first ultrasound photo. The technician smiles warmly. Your partner gets misty-eyed. And you're staring at this grainy image thinking... what am I looking at here? Don't worry, you're not alone.

Your baby’s ultrasound photograph DOES look like:

1. A close-up of the craters in the moon’s surface
2. A half-deflated whoopee cushion
3. Your repressed childhood nightmares
4. The face you’re constantly terrified you’ll see if you look out your window at night
5. Play-Doh left in a patch of sunlight for too long
6. Jon Lovitz
7. A really, really old pumpkin. Like, it’s early May. Why do you still have a pumpkin on your porch?
8. Grandpa. Not your grandpa, necessarily. Just any grandpa.
9. A topographical map of a forest fire
10. If there was an extra Inside Out character called Constipation
11. Your mother-in-law’s baby pictures

Your baby’s ultrasound photograph DOES NOT look like:

1. A baby

But here's the thing: the second that blob becomes an actual baby in your arms, you'll pull out this ultrasound photo and somehow see them perfectly. Hindsight is 20/20. Ultrasounds are 20/200.