So we went in for our appointment last week where we were supposed to be able to find out the sex, and this is how that went down:
The nurse started the sonogram which was of course very cool and the baby’s body looked a lot more defined than last time. We even got a good shot of what appears to be a rather sizeable (I won’t go so far as to say disproportional, but if someone else suggested it I probably wouldn’t disagree) arm/hand. Here are a couple of pics:
Head is on the right, little feet on the left and you should be able to make out the spine along the bottom. Now for the hand shot:
So here the spine is at the top of the picture so the baby’s facing down, with the body laying left to right. On the left you see what looks like a big ol’ foot, but no, that is actually a hand being held up next to the head. Cute huh?
Now for the update on the gender. So after the nurse looked around a bit and snapped those pics, she said “looks girly, but I’m not really getting the best view.” Then she had the doc come in to see what he thought, and his take was “looks girly, but don’t go painting the room pink yet.” Ugh. I thought we were supposed to be finding out (relatively) for sure what this baby is going to be! But then after the sonogram was finished and he was about to leave, I decided to press him for more details and pretty much forced him to say how sure he was about girl, to which he responded 80%. So I guess long story short it is “probably” a girl. We will allegedly get confirmation of that (or perhaps a surprise) at our next appointment in about 2.5 weeks. I’m a little skeptical since we thought we were finding out this time, but in reality we aren’t officially supposed to be finding out until 20 weeks and any time before that they are hoping to be able to get a good look.
Although it’s only “probably” a girl, we are pretty much referring to the baby as a girl at this point even though we know we could get a surprise in a few weeks. In fact yesterday we were out running some errands and of course had to stop to browse through the baby clothes, and Tim found some little pajamas that said ‘daddy’s girl’ and pulled them right off the rack and said we were buying them! I had to remind him that it’s not for sure a girl yet, but it sounds like he is embracing the idea of a little girl. Awww, I guess Tim doesn’t always say/do the wrong baby-related thing. Even though he seems to be assuming it’s a girl now, I know he would be more than happy if it does end up being a boy, so I’m not too worried about that. I will post again in a few weeks to report on the (hopefully) definitive conclusion to this girl or boy saga.
3 comments:
From the looks of it, Marie Jr will be able to palm a basketball minutes after shes born! Not going to lie, the spine and hand picture are a little scary, almost E.T. like! Im sure itll be the cutest kid ever!
I don't think that I ever responded to your email about this, but if it makes you feel any better, my doc didn't even do a 16 week ultrasound this time. :( So lame. Probably 1, because Matt wasn't there and 2, because Henry decided it was time to have a meltdown right when Doc walked in the room...
But actually I called last week to see if they would be doing one and they basically told me not to count on it, so that's why Matt wasn't there. LAME-O.
Anyway, that does TOTALLY look like a foot. And get excited, the 20 wk sonogram is AWESOME, and it lasts 45 minutes, and you should be getting a DVD of it to show your family. And at the 20 week, they have a little more time/try a little harder to look at the gender.
I think it's so cute that Tim bought the pj's. Daddy's are wrapped around their little girl's fingers!
Waiting for the 2.5 week appt to see if the sex is still a girl.
Also, that hand has to be a foot!
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