We had our Ultrasound on Monday, August 26 at 1 PM. When the ultrasound tech first started she showed me baby and said that it was all curled up with it legs crossed and feet resting on its head, which meant she couldn't see the sex of the baby. The head was so far down in my pelvis that it was resting on my cervix! Baby P was also faced towards my back. This made some of the measurements very difficult for her. We tried for the whole ultrasound to get baby to flip over but it appears to already be stubborn and wouldn't cooperate no matter how many times I rolled around on the bed, went pee or she poked at my stomach. She was able to see the sex of the baby later in the u.s. (thank goodness!!) but baby made the frontal brain measurements quite difficult. The tech ended up pushing the ultrasound transducer into my tummy to try to see the other side of baby's face and was able to get the measurement. During the ultrasound baby was shaking it's head no a lot! Too cute. It's hand was up by the ear in a little fist. It was all so amazing to see! She wasn't allowed to tell us the gender of the baby so we had to wait until our Dr's apt right after.
We first saw the fellow (since we are being seen in a teaching hospital- the same one my husband is learning in!) and she asked us our guesses. Of course Paul had thought boy and I had thought girl. Then she said to Paul, "well you know who is always right, it's a girl!!!!" We couldn't be happier to be having a girl. I'm already dreaming of headbands and tutus all day and night and what my beautiful little girl will look like. We have named her Stella, with a middle name to be announced at a later date!
Sharing the news with our families was so exciting. My mom was set on the baby being a boy. We had to wait a whole 5 days to tell them, it was so hard! I'm awful at keeping exciting news to myself but I did it. We got to my mom's house and she had done everything in pink and blue, it was such a special surprise! My grandparents were there as well. We got a box with pink balloons inside for them to open. Everyone was so excited to find out we would be having a girl! We told Paul's family the next day at his parent's anniversary party. They were all happy too and the kids loved the balloons!
My family!
Paul's family!
The kids loved the balloons!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So sorry for the lack of the 20 week update, I have been so busy with my husband going back to school, mom having surgery and throwing my best friend's bachlorette that I never got a chance to do it! I hope to do my 21 week update tomorrow!
No comments:
Post a Comment