Summary

In Chapter III, when the narrator was 12 weeks pregnant “for the first time,” she got a sonogram (137). She remembers being in the office and the feel of the gel on her stomach (138). Before seeing the baby, she worried she “would feel nothing for this entity” that was more an idea than a child (139). When she saw the image, the baby did not seem to exist inside of her body. She felt herself shrinking. She saw her marriage with Johannes differently, too.

Later, to distract herself “from the morning,” she dug through her drawer and found a newspaper clipping of “the surface of Titan” (142, 143). The image reminded her of the ultrasound.

In 1750, three men brought William Hunter the body of a pregnant woman. The work William Hunter, his brother John, and Jan van Rymsdyk completed during and after their study would “form...