I've been so busy with the holidays and being SICK SICK SICK that I got very behind in my bumpdates. So much has been changing from week to week that I need to seriously get better about this. The majority of these two weeks have been focused on the excitement surrounding our ultrasound on the 21st. At this appointment we would hopefully find out the gender of baby! We had a Christmas party on the 23rd so decided to wait to tell everyone the results until the party. We decided to take Soph with us to this appointment to see baby on the screen. She was pretty fidgetty but overall it was fun having her in there. Sophia has said from Day 1 when asked "Are you going to have a baby brother or baby sister?" That she would have a "Baby Sister!!" When we went in for the U/S we told the tech about Sophia's premonition. Unfortunately, baby wasn't very cooperative for the tech to get what she needed from the U/S...however... we did find out that IT'S A GIRL!!!! She said "Wow! That's weird...she was right! It's a girl!" I knew from the moment I was pregnant that it was going to be a girl. I don't know why but I just always felt like Ken and I were meant to have two girls. I must also say that Ken and I had secret WANT for it to be a girl. Of course we wouldn't have been disappointed, per se, had it been a boy, but a girl just felt right.
Baby Girly Parts :)
We didn't really get any other cute pictures from this session. Also, it was determined that little girl's kidneys are a bit enlarged. Between this and the fact that they didn't get a good view of her heart and other organs, they requested that we go in for a Level II ultrasound. I guess our little Las Cruces doesn't have a site for these types of U/S so we will be going to Albuquerque on the 14th of January to have it done. When they scheduled my next appointment, they labeled it as "high-risk" which doesn't really mean we are at risk of ANYTHING at all, but I certainly hate the way it sounds after everything we went through with Sophia. We're not worried. Sophia had a similar thing while I was pregnant and everything turned out fine. None the less, please keep our girl in your thoughts and prayers.
So, at our Christmas party we placed a dry erase board on an easel for everyone to pick a side. After signing their name to a team, they picked a number from that side for a raffle. The winning number would reveal the baby's gender.
The teams were pretty evenly split between boy and girl.
And the winner is... A GIRL!!
Symptoms: I feel wonderful. No more tiredness. No nausea. Just enjoying every second of this pregnancy.
Cravings/Aversions: Still loving sour candies. Also obsessed with pickles and horseradish.
Sleep: Still comfortable...just the dream thing.
Movement: All the time! This time Ken has even been able to feel baby moving very early on! Love love love.
Gender: A GIRL!! We just knew it!
Maternity Clothes: Pants and shirts. I have a bunch of winter stuff left over from last time so that has been nice. I'll need some new items in the spring though.
Best moment this week: Finding out the gender. Although when we were told that it was indeed a girl, I sort of had the feeling of "tell me something I don't know..."
Next doctor appointment: January 14th U/S and January 17th regular appointment.
