g their baby at 16 weeks and I am feeling NOTHING at 20?" or "I still dont' have much of a baby bump...is it growing right? OMG, it's stopped growing..."Anyway, it's about an hour drive to the town where the ultrasound is done, and because we stopped along the way to get Beau a NZ driver's license (my idea) we were late to the appointment. I called them to let them know, and the woman said, "Oh, well try to get here when you can and we'll see if we can let you in."
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, we DID get there (about 15 minutes late) and WERE allowed into the appointment (PHEW!). Immediately, the radiologist with a voice mirroring Jewel's said, "So, do we want to know the sex today?"
- "YES!"
"Okay...well, I can see right between Baby's legs right now, and there are no dangly bits."
- *pause* "So...that's a girl."
"Yes."
The rest of the scan went very well...the woman talking a mile-a-minute in that babydoll voice describing everything she could clearly see and I could cleary NOT. Once in awhile something would be obvious -- the spinal cord, a waving hand, but most of it looked like various grey blobs to me. I was just happy (and teary-eyed) to hear here keep cooing, "Okay, that looks great..." and "That's perfect," etc.
She also surprised me by saying that the (now) girl was moving around like crazy, waving arms and legs and twisting and t
urning around, kicking at my stomach. Fantastic! Just wish I could feel it all! But as Beau reminds me, "Soon enough you'll be feeling it constantly and it'll probably be PLENTY for you then."
urning around, kicking at my stomach. Fantastic! Just wish I could feel it all! But as Beau reminds me, "Soon enough you'll be feeling it constantly and it'll probably be PLENTY for you then."Hooray! Now that we know the gender we can calmly hash out our names (our "girl" list is twice as long as our "boy" list) and get it fixed before the due date.
Surprising note: when Beau and I returned to work at his school the following day, all his students wanted to know the gender and were thrilled to find out...but when I told several older adults that we had chosen to find out, they were very clearly disappointed, a couple even brashly lectured me!
"How could you? It's supposed to be a surprise! Why would you want to know?"
??? Seriously? Maybe I'm not as much of a romantic as I think I am, but I do like the idea of planning out a name, getting the "appropriate" clothes (though JEEZUS, what's with the predominance of all things PINK for a girl???), and just identifying with it as "she" instead of "it." Maybe if this was my 4th child it would be fun to have a surprise (seeing as how I'd be stocked up on baby stuff, of which we have NONE atm, anyway), but for my one, and probably only, baby, I'd really like to be prepared. We're still basically living on Beau's one income and we are very slowly trying to accumulate all we need...we've already started buying diapers.
And, we've started something I find very fun. With the shortlist of names we have, each day when we talk to her, or about her, we call her by one of those names all day long -- just to see how it feels, if we really like it. The next day we pick another name from the list and repeat. I'm really liking it and it's already allowed me to eliminate one name.
Maybe this won't be a knockdown, drag-out fight after all. :)
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congrats!! Can't wait to hear what name you settled on and I'm so glad all went well with the appointment!!!
How about Spongea? No no, no need to thank me... :D
Ha, don't worry, Spongie, I won't!
Most of our names are rather unique. I guess that comes from growing up with the #1 name in America. But hopefully not SO unique that it's a turnoff.
Congrats! Buying little girl stuff is wayyyyy more fun than boy stuff!! So happy for you!! Alishia
"But hopefully not SO unique that it's a turnoff." - what about those of us who are from cultures in which names can easily be unique? Having said that, my mother did once bump into someone with the exact same first name as she gave me. Odds of that are rather slim, to say the least.
How about Hlafweard?
I'm still trying to pronounce Hlafweard. Depending on whether I imagine the "H" or "L" is silent I get different, fun results.
And Alishia: Thanks! Yeah, already started to buy a few "pretty things" from online auctions. I have to admit it's kind of fun, even if I do have a hard time avoiding SO MUCH PINK. Thankfully, there are some people who dress their girls in other colors.
Spongie: As for "turn-off," an example we were thinking of the other day (though not on the shortlist of names) was the difference between Raven and Crow. Raven is kind of a cool name for someone, but you probably wouldn't name your kid Crow...even though they're pretty much mean the same thing.
Yellows, greens, purples and reds. Lovely colors. I tried to introduce other colors, but Catie has been a girly pink girl from the beginning, now by her choice. Heh.
Congrats again, and glad all things were good on the ultrasound. :)
How about "The Crow"? :D
Spongie: Too much of a bad omen... That family is marked by early death...
I identify with so much of what you're saying as we are about the same age and have had a similar fertility journey...
A note on something that I learned; STOP BUYING DIAPERS! You think that it makes financial sense to stock up now but it so doesn't because you never know which kind will fit your little girlie properly. We stocked up and were dismayed to find out that one brand leaked after one pee and another brand never fit right around the thighs...even though other people pegged these brands as their faves. It's a REALLY individual baby thing. Anyway, I don't mean to sound bossy but I wish I wouldn't have stocked up. So, imho, stock up on coupons for different brands and not the actual nappies.
Continued Good Pregnancy to you!!
We used cloth diapers most of the time for Anya, although we had to be more on the ball about changing them, since even with a plastic outer thingy they leaked easier than disposable ones.
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