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baby!!!!

What were you expecting? A pony?


So today was our "big" ultrasound and just as planned, we didn't find out the gender. Although that wasn't for my darn husband's lack of trying. But first things first.

We got in there, brought the boys too. I told the tech, "We don't know or want to know the gender" and she said okay and puts the probe on my belly. The baby hadn't been visible for long when the tech says, "At least you won't have anyone stealing your clothes..."

I looked at her, like, "What in the heck do you mean by that, Woman?" and she was quick to say, "If it's another boy, I mean, and I don't know if it is or not..."

Had she seen something??? Hmmmmm. Jason believes it was waaaaaay too early for her to have truly learned the gender but you never know...when it's something you do every day and all...

She went through all her measurements and looked at all the non-gender parts she could see. Everything looked great with the baby! She warned us, "I need to take a look at the bladder now" and I covered my eyes...Jason started looking!!!! If I could've reached him I would've smacked him. He started making up rules like, "We said I wouldn't find out but if I happened to catch a glimpse..." What the heck!?!? I can tell you I won't be inviting him to any more ultrasounds. :) He and the tech both claimed they still didn't know the gender though.

Then the tech left and the perinatologist came in and took a better look at a few of the things the tech couldn't see so well...like she said Wabie is ornery and wouldn't let them get a good view of the spine and kept moving so as to not allow a good pic of the heart. That's my little rascal! :)

Looking at it today I thought it was a boy. Just from looking at it. Anytime she was near a leg I would be so nervous it would kick and a little peen would bob up or something (like it did with Dalton) but nope...any parts stayed hidden. She said that she didn't think we'd be able to see anything anyway.

The other little bit of news left to share is that they took a look at the blood flow through my uterine arteries because that can somewhat predict developing preeclampsia in the future. Now, they weren't "normal" which would let everyone breathe a sigh of relief BUT you can have "not normal" like mine and still not necessarily have complications later on.

So, just like with Dalton's pregnancy I will continue to be high-risk and continue to have ultrasounds every 4 weeks from now on. Currently it's certainly nothing to flip out over or anything, just maybe keep Wabie and I in your prayers. I just want to stress that even me (a born-worrier) knows that this is not necessarily the beginning of the end or anything dramatic like that. They're watching me closely and will continue to. I will continue to take my baby aspirin and such and I will continue to pray for mine and Wabie's health.

As I said above, the baby looks perfect. I'm 21 weeks 1 day and Wabie measured 5 days ahead (just like at it's 12 week). We have a disc full of pictures but only that profile shot in hard copy and the disc is too hard to pull pics from so you'll just have to trust me that it has all it's arms and legs and fingers and toes and it's head is the right size and it's heart is working fine (didn't get the heartrate, though but it was 172 yesterday here at home) and I don't have any money shots for you to try to guess on. So there.

ETA: I was able to figure out how to pull off some screen shots from the disc...this is as close as you'll get to the crotch...

(For the less ultrasonically gifted, that it's neck being cut off on the left, hopefully you can tell that's a spine with some little curled-up-in-the-fetal-position legs towards the right)

However, most of the images aren't all the exciting...like what the heck is this??? It's says "CI" which I believe stands for cephalic index...now, cephalic is the head. And I guess they're measuring some width to length ratio?...so I s'pose I can see how this has a plane of the head in it...

...and maybe just the bird's eye view of some other parts sticking out beneath it? Eek!

That's the scoop. Time to go wake up Dalton since he got such a late start on his nap. Ta ta!