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Had the big sonogram today. Now, technically this is a week or two earlier than most people do it, but because this is my last week at my current job, I knew I'd be able to safely make the appointment for today as I don't know what my schedule will be like for a while.
But everything was normal and the baby is right on target for size, making me wonder why I'm so damn big!
One funny thing. Everything you read tells you to have a full bladder for the ultrasound so I obliged, but the tech felt it was getting in the way of her being able to move her wand around so she made me pee halfway through, then complained that I was filling up again quickly. Well, for future reference, I now know not to have a big glass of water before leaving the house as I've read to do.
So she says she's all done and I surprisingly ask if she's unable to find out the gender. She surprisingly asks if I want to know. Hell yeah! She tried, but the little critter was breech, i.e. mooning us most of the time. She kept poking at it and pushing on my belly in an effort to figure it out, but she said she didn't really want to say anything for sure. She said she thought at first it was a boy, but then the next second thought it was a girl. The problem is, at this point in the development, a penis would still be small enough that it could also be mistaken for labia. No, really, that's what she said.
I am super disappointed because I REALLY wanted to know. I'm trying to convince John to ask his dad to pull a favor when we come up at Christmas to see if he knows an ultrasound tech up there that would do a freebie for us. I mean, I'm sure they'd want to see it, too, right?
My office mate swears by the whole hanging a needle on thread over your belly thing. When she was pregnant, it indicated that she was having a girl (which she did), then they did it over someone else who knew she was having a boy and it indicated that, then they did it over someone who wasn't pregnant at all and the needle didn't move at all. That's the part that convinced me to try it. John and I tried it ourselves, but the needle is so small that there were times we thought it might be going kind of circular (girl), but mostly thought it was going back and forth (boy). So I made the aforementioned office mate do it for me yesterday and she's convinced it's a boy. We also tried a different version that said to use a gold ring on string, so we tried it out with John's wedding band and it definitely indicated a boy.
I've had a hunch all along that it's a boy, to the point where I sometimes refer to it as a he. Obviously I can't go on that and goodness knows intuition is not always accurate, although I did have a hunch that I conceived on the day I did. I just wish I knew either way. It would feel more like my baby if I could personalize it more, rather than just this little alien living in my body. And I would love to stop calling it an "it."
*Sigh*
But everything was normal and the baby is right on target for size, making me wonder why I'm so damn big!
One funny thing. Everything you read tells you to have a full bladder for the ultrasound so I obliged, but the tech felt it was getting in the way of her being able to move her wand around so she made me pee halfway through, then complained that I was filling up again quickly. Well, for future reference, I now know not to have a big glass of water before leaving the house as I've read to do.
So she says she's all done and I surprisingly ask if she's unable to find out the gender. She surprisingly asks if I want to know. Hell yeah! She tried, but the little critter was breech, i.e. mooning us most of the time. She kept poking at it and pushing on my belly in an effort to figure it out, but she said she didn't really want to say anything for sure. She said she thought at first it was a boy, but then the next second thought it was a girl. The problem is, at this point in the development, a penis would still be small enough that it could also be mistaken for labia. No, really, that's what she said.
I am super disappointed because I REALLY wanted to know. I'm trying to convince John to ask his dad to pull a favor when we come up at Christmas to see if he knows an ultrasound tech up there that would do a freebie for us. I mean, I'm sure they'd want to see it, too, right?
My office mate swears by the whole hanging a needle on thread over your belly thing. When she was pregnant, it indicated that she was having a girl (which she did), then they did it over someone else who knew she was having a boy and it indicated that, then they did it over someone who wasn't pregnant at all and the needle didn't move at all. That's the part that convinced me to try it. John and I tried it ourselves, but the needle is so small that there were times we thought it might be going kind of circular (girl), but mostly thought it was going back and forth (boy). So I made the aforementioned office mate do it for me yesterday and she's convinced it's a boy. We also tried a different version that said to use a gold ring on string, so we tried it out with John's wedding band and it definitely indicated a boy.
I've had a hunch all along that it's a boy, to the point where I sometimes refer to it as a he. Obviously I can't go on that and goodness knows intuition is not always accurate, although I did have a hunch that I conceived on the day I did. I just wish I knew either way. It would feel more like my baby if I could personalize it more, rather than just this little alien living in my body. And I would love to stop calling it an "it."
*Sigh*
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