IT'S A BOY!!

Well - today was interesting. Went to my first appt by myself. It was just my OB check up and they check my weight, BP and the baby's heartbeat. My blood pressure was good at 120/80 and I'm still three pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight so that is good too. Then the doctor started using the doppler to look for the heartbeat and couldn't find it. Scared the crap out of me and I was trying to be as calm as I could. Then we went in to do an ultrasound. Thanksfully as soon as we saw the baby I could see the heartbeat - even before the doctor saw it. SO I felt better, but it still shook me up because that is a fear I have. So that was that.

Then we had the BIG ultrasound at 5:00 - the tech was taking all the anatomy pictures and such and all was going well. Then she moved to checking for gender. The baby wouldn't spread its legs. So she tells me to go to the bathroom and we'll see if an empty bladder will help. Guess what... NOPE! She was so sweet and patient. She told me to try laying on my side and then she would come back and try again. At this point the baby was sitting cross legged and doing yoga as the tech said. Guess what.... NO GO AGAIN!! I was starting to get a little upset about it. She said she was just going to start the ultrasound with another patient and told me to do jumping jacks... anything that I thougth could help, but this was my last try.

Well - the baby was still sitting cross legged, but had flipped from front to back. or visa versa... can't remember. She was trying and talking to the baby and everything. My mom (and Nathan's mom) was there and had brought a pink bear and a blue bear. The tech said, "pick up your bears... you can take the pink one back!!" The baby finally opened up just long enough and she caught a look at HIS peeps!

IT'S A BOY!!!!

I can't believe it!

Nathan is really excited as is everyone else in the family. We all met for dinner afterwards and everyone was so sweet.

But this little bun in my oven is a sweet little boy!! I am so happy and so excited, but it feels so surreal to know that we are having a boy.

Alright - we are going to watch the ultrasound video now! It is VHS so I wont' be able to upload it.

A quick addition - we watched the ultrasoun picture and paused it during the "money shot" of our little boy showing his boy bits! I took a picture of the TV screen - worked out perfect!