After a very long and difficult 10 weeks, we finally got to find out the gender of our baby yesterday! Monday night felt like Christmas Eve...I could hardly sleep the whole night and I literally woke up every single hour, just ready to jump out of bed and go to the appointment. I was able to contain my excitement all the way until 5:30am, when I finally just accepted the fact that I wasn't going to get any more sleep. Brian, however, contained himself quite well- peacefully asleep until 8:30am.
At that point, I couldn't wait any longer for him to wake up, so he got a nice wake up call from me,
"BRIAN, OUR BABY HAS A VERY IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT TODAY AND BABY WON'T WANT TO BE LATE!"
Ahhh...finally, he was awake. While Brian got ready to go, I apprehensively made sure to drink as much water as I could, since the doctor's office had said that would be the best way to see the baby. The reason I was hesitant to drink much water, is because I have always had a small bladder...and pregnancy has only made matters worse in that department. But, after much praying that baby would cooperate and show us the goods at the appointment- I didn't want to risk not finding out!
Once we had settled into the waiting room at the doctor's office, Brian turned to me and said, "Ok, we better make our final bets as to what the baby is going to be...I think it's a boy!"
I replied with, "Brian...I think it's a boy too...so we can't even bet against each other!"
Well, at least we didn't have to wait much longer. Once we were taken back into the ultrasound room, the lady put the ultrasound on my stomach and kind of sighed while saying, hmmmm.
Of course, I started to panic and asked what was going on. She proceeded to tell me that our baby had picked a very unusual and uncooperative position for the appointment...he was on his head with his legs crossed!! She told us that at this point in pregnancy, it was kind of unusual for her to see a baby in this position and if he didn't move, we might have to reschedule our appointment. All of this was said while she was pushing on my very full bladder and trying to shake my stomach so he would wake up. What an accident waiting to happen! Thankfully, soon enough she jokingly told me to go empty my bladder and threaten my child to wake up.
So that's exactly what I did.
In the bathroom, I'm sure I looked like like some sort of crazy lady- I was jumping up and down, shaking my stomach, mentally telling this child that he better wake up or I was going to be one sad mama. Then, we tried again and thank goodness he had moved. Right when the lady put the US back on, really loudly she said, "OH! OK, what do you guys think?" We both instantly knew he was a boy.
Can you tell the difference between the 2 pics? In the first US pic, both Brian and I think he just looks like a little daredevil. What a trickster, probably playing an April's Fool's joke on us...I'm just so glad he ended up moving during the appointment! What a good baby.
The rest of the appointment went well. There is nothing like seeing a little person so comfy and cute inside of you- I could have watched him in there all day. I know we're biased, but it really was adorable to watch him do some kicks and move around. We even saw him yawn really big twice...probably because I had woken him up with all that jumping around! Watching him yawn was probably my favorite part. The rest of the day I just wanted to carry my ultrasound pictures around with me and look at them...he has gotten way bigger than the last time we saw him, it's just incredible. Brian laughs at me and I KNOW it's silly, but one night about a week ago, as I was drifting off to sleep I started worrying to Brian that it's all going to go way too fast. Once the baby is born, they won't be with me all the time anymore and I'm going to miss them and then next thing we know they're going to be off to college! He couldn't even contain his laughter...I blame pregnancy hormones. ;) haha
The 4d pictures were pretty cool to see! I know it's early, but in this pic I really think the baby looks like Brian, just with the facial structure. Especially the frontal bone where his eyebrows will be.
After the appointment yesterday, I think things got more "real" for Brian...he got really excited and started raving about doing a motorcycle nursery and all sorts of other things. Which is really funny, because we had kind of picked out other things we might do prior to that..but all his opinions changed once he knew the gender and saw the ultrasound, haha. I'm glad he likes to be so involved though- right after the appointment I was feeling slightly bummed/stressed because with 2 sisters I love dresses, bows, and all things girly... and I have no clue what to do with a boy! So, straight from our appointment we went to Target and bought an awesome fedora and some cute onesies for us to dote over while we wait to meet the little one. I don't feel too guilty, because on both sides of the family there are only girls...so we won't get any hand me downs. Guess we'll just have to be on the lookout for cute baby clothes and stuff. Oh darn...what a bummer!! ;) To say the least, we are completely smitten.
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