We had been holding our breath for weeks. Then the room went quiet, the screen flickered, and there it was: a heartbeat, fast and certain, filling the whole room with sound.

A galloping horse

The technician smiled and said it sounded like a galloping horse. We laughed, then we cried, then we asked to hear it one more time. We drove home with a grainy little photo tucked into the glovebox and grinned the whole way.