ULTRASOUND #2 - GENDER REVEAL!!

It's been a long 20 week wait to find out who's floating around in there. My appointment was at 11:45 this morning and I had to drink at least 16oz of water and hold it an hr before. My bladder was kinda going to explode. I went to check in and sat down on probably the most comfortable waiting room seats I've ever sat in...for chairs at least. They were super bouncy and cushiony. So I bounced around as I waited. Thankfully we didn't have to wait long, since the anticipation and full bladder were running against me.

We went into room 1. I laid on the little chair/bed/table/thing and the lady technician, who was super awesome and nice by the way, sploodged some goop on my belly and began scoping the innards. 1st we saw the head, then we saw some legs, and some arms. She asked if we wanted to know the gender. We were thinking of having Barry's sister do a little gender reveal extravaganza for us, but we've waited so long, we just had to know. So we both said "yes". So she began looking for the special parts. She took a bunch of photos and said "ok you may go pee now" and we'll look some more. So I waddled across the hall and emptied the tank and waddled back quickly. She looked around some more. Our hearts were just about pounding out of our chests. Then she said "it's a boy!" Barry and I were both very excited and relieved. Since we both really wanted a boy. So she made sure to take a picture of the boy bits just for proof for the fam ;)

She went on taking a zillion more pictures for the Dr. We saw the little guy shifting around, moving limbs, and stretching. It's weird seeing him moving on the screen and feeling the movement at the same time! At the end of our appointment she said he's around 10oz, a heart rate of 140 bpm, and quite possibly 2 days ahead of his due date, but the Dr. will be able to be more precise. She printed our some pictures for us to take home and then we were on our way. Of course we hugged it out once we got in the hall and we were all smiles the rest of the way to the car.

We took a picture to send to my mum and made our way to Babies R Us to work on more registry stuff! We then took a picture for Barry's family. Everyone was very excited. Also, Barry's parents owe us a dinner...hopefully not TacoBell-HAHA!

There ya have it! Our future Oliver Blu!

Our Dude :)

week 20!