Well, the evidence is in and it is definitely a boy! (Already have a way to embarrass the poor kid too. hehe)
Going in I was going to be okay with either outcome. I was hoping for a boy because my husband is the youngest with three sisters who have five daughters between them. It would be fun to have the baby boy of his family have a boy of his own. On the other hand, I wanted to have a girl because, well, I think I could just relate better having been a little girl myself!
The ultrasound was a very surreal experience and definitely not at all what I expected. I’ve seen many in-utero still photos and thought all you would see would be blurry, blobish shapes that you could vaguely make out. I had no idea the live image would be so clear and that you could also see inside the baby…the beating heart, the bones of the spine! This video is but a clip of the roughly 20 minutes the tech spent surveying everything…measuring the brain cavity, the length of the leg bones, etc. She did leave inspecting the genital area until almost the end, building up the suspense I suppose. :) It was also surprising how much the baby was moving. I guess I can only feel the real big movements at this point. Afterwards my husband asked if I had noticed how hard the tech was pressing down on the wand into my belly, but I hadn’t at all. I was too transfixed watching that little baby on the screen.
It definitely changes things to know the sex of the baby. Before I found out, I was imagining the different kinds of households either one would bring. Of course, either way there will be toys, sports and interests common to both, but there’s no denying that the subtle vibe of a home is just different depending on whether little boys or girls live there.
So a boy it is! I can dig it. Now, the tough part is coming up….names! Greg and I already had a few girls names we liked, but no boy names. They will be much harder. Time to start seriously studying the baby name book I got from the library.