It's a boy!

Aug 31, 2011

19w 1d

Me and D had been bouncing around about this ultrasound all week.  It's anatomy scan day, and we get to take home a DVD of the ultrasound.  I occupy myself by focusing on wedding planning, making some adjustments to the wedding program and such.  D got annoyed with me for trying to talk to him about wedding stuff when he was already stressed and excited about the ultrasound.

We left early to grab lunch beforehand, and this time I got a coffee.  The ultrasound tech advised last time that coffee helps baby be more active.  Considering last time baby was being so uncooperative, I didn't want to chance getting there and baby not being willing to show off the goods.  I even had the foresight to not gulp it all down at once, which was fortunate because we were a while in the waiting room.  They were apparently behind schedule that day, and the nurse was a bit short with us when D asked if I had actually gained any weight this time.

At last it was our turn in the ultrasound room!  She did the anatomy portion first, making a DVD for the doctor.  She took all the measurements, showed us the 4 chambers in the heart, and we got to see the blood flowing through the umbilical cord.  I was a proud mama seeing how well baby was doing and that the cord had all the vessels it was supposed to have.  Baby was at this point folded like a taco with its feet up by its head.  Luckily, by the time she put our DVD in for our recording, baby had moved its legs back down so that its knees were merely up by its chest instead of stretched all the way up.

We got a full body view and saw the baby squirming a bit before the ultrasound tech zeroed in on the goods.  It took a minute to get a good look because baby had one of its legs crossed with its foot on its knee.  But then we saw it, a clear white dot!  We're having a boy!  The technician make sure to get a good still picture with the tell-tale sign.

We got some more video of him moving around and some profile pictures.  I wasn't crying per se, but I had tears in my eyes watching my little boy.  I was so proud of him for being so healthy and active and thinking about all the wonderful times he would bring to my life.  We got some good still pictures from the doctor's ultrasound for our DVD and some more movement shots before she called it a day.

The reason why I didn't post this the day it happened is because we decided we wanted to surprise my parents who are coming up for labor day.  We are also telling other family in a special way, and I'm not sure if they check this blog or not.