{"id":8658,"date":"2023-11-23T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2023-11-23T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:44:41","slug":"babys-first-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/who-does-this-guy-think-he-is\/babys-first-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby’s First Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have a note dated 11\/23\/1954 from a radiologist to my Mom’s doctor (below). The radiologist estimates I am 4 1\/2 months old then. Yes, my first baby picture is in utero. (I have the xray.) Surely, I am only 3 1\/2 months old because it would be another 6 months until my birth. Guessing fetal age by xrays was probably more an art than science.<\/p>\n

That would be weird enough but there is another xray from 3 months earlier (8\/21\/54), almost exactly 9 months prior to my birth. Was I there then or soon after?<\/p>\n

I picture a cigarette-smoking, whiskey-drinking, hotdog-eating doctor ordering more xrays to confirm every ailment. I have two more near my first birthday determining my pneumonia had improved. Small wonder my Mom developed lymphoma. (I did too but mine wasn’t fatal.)<\/p>\n

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I have a note dated 11\/23\/1954 from a radiologist to my Mom’s doctor (below). The radiologist estimates I am 4 1\/2 months old then. Yes, my first baby picture is in utero. (I have the xray.) Surely, I am only 3 1\/2 months old because it would be another 6 months until my birth. Guessing … Continue reading Baby’s First Picture<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-does-this-guy-think-he-is"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}