At our 13 week ultrasound the Tech guessed that we were having a girl. However, I had read that many times the guesses are wrong this early, so we didn't take it too seriously. She said sometimes she doesn't even bother guessing, so I should have known she must have been somewhat confident in this guess. We decided not to tell anyone since she could be wrong. But, prior to that moment I was thinking that I must be having a boy because everything seemed pretty similar. I never even thought about the possibility it could be a girl, because I just assumed we would have 4 boys.
Between 13 weeks and 20 weeks my opinion slowly started to change. I noticed I was nauseous a bit longer and carrying my weight in places other than my stomach...unfortunately. So, I started to think maybe she was right after all. It definitely made waiting for the 20 week ultrasound harder, because we were very curious to see if she was right.
Well, the day finally came today. We brought Colin and Evan along since they are home from school. This time we were at a different place with a new Tech, so that made me confident that if they both saw the same thing, they are probably right. Dennis and I eagerly waited through all her measurements to see what she would guess. We both thought we saw that it was a girl as soon as the screen went up, but stayed quiet waiting for her to say something. Finally after about 15 minutes of her doing all the measurements and looking for what she needed to see she said, "Well, looks like it is a girl!" We were so excited. The boys were excited to, well as excited as little boys get about this sort of thing. They didn't really care what the sex was. Evan did comment that she was "Chillin" and "Chillaxin".
Dennis and I are still in shock, it is hard to imagine how a girl is going to shake things up around here. I am excited to get to see Dennis with a daughter and hoping the mother/daughter bond is as strong as the mother/son one, because I loved having baby boys! I am also eager to start going through our baby clothes to pick out the few neutral stuff and purging all the rest. We don't have a single girl blanket, sheet, clothing item, toy, etc, in this house so we have some work to do between now and December! Hopefully, we will get hand me downs from family or friends...
Anyway, it has been a very fun day finding out. I really wanted to wait until she was born to find out and that would have been a lot of fun to tell people at the moment. But, being that we are not prepared for a girl, it probably will be helpful to be able to get some hand me downs before she is born. It should be a fun next few months getting ready.
In other news....Evan had his first gymnastics class today! He absolutely loved it! I look forward to bringing him again next week!
(I need Dennis' help to scan the ultrasound photos and post them, so that will be posted later...)
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