{And the Verdict is?!?!?!}

We got our ultrasound today!! It was very interesting and actually really calm. I thought I might be nervous at first but wasn't.

UGH! The doctor told me I had to relieve my bladder at 9:30 AM and then from 9:30 until 10AM I was to drink 24 ounces of water. Seriously by 10:17 I was squirming really bad. I ended up going into the bathroom and counting to 15 while going REALLY slow not to empty my bladder but I wasn't going to be able to wait the next 45 minutes JUST to get into the appointment. After that I drank more water because it has now been proven my bladder fills up super fast! Once the technician called us (Victor and I only-our 3 moms had to wait until the end) I immediately told him, I already need to pee again! He laughed and said one minute. I thought he was joking. He laid me down, took one picture of just by bladder and said that my bladder was indeed TOO full and to empty it! I said I thought the whole procedure wouldn't work if I didn't have a full bladder and he said if I was a few weeks earlier it would be a different story but being this far along didn't matter and in fact made it harder to be 100% clear and easy! I WAS RELIEVED!!!

The technician spent about 40 minutes checking things (I am not sure of WHAT as I laid on a bed and couldn't see the screen). I think I told him 3 times we really did want to know the sex and did he know yet???

He said that we most likely would need to come back for a second ultrasound because he was looking for something in the heart but the baby and the heart are small and whatever he was looking for is only 2 milimeters big. In a few weeks the baby will have grown more and he will see whatever he was looking for. I am not alarmed because he told me he was able to catch a glimpse of it but wanted to snap a shot of it for the doctor but the baby moved before he could.

He mentioned that the baby was developed and aged to about 20 weeks and on the moniter it said 20w2d (20 Weeks, 2 Days). HA! I have been telling Dr. Gramann I was farther along then his 19 weeks! The technician never told me an exact size but did mention the baby was smaller in size but not SUPER small. FINE by me, I will not complain for a small baby, in fact, the smaller the better so long as the baby is FULLY developed...

FINALLY........And, yes, I drug this out because I really felt the technician did this to us, so I am giving you a taste of patience---and I don't have much of that virtue!

It's a BOY!

He showed us this picture of a gray semi circle and said that this was a hip bone, then pointed on the opposite side and said this was a leg and then the middle part was well, his privates. I could see what he was looking at but the "hip bone" wasn't white like the rest of the bones and was very dark and gray so to me it was hard to tell. I was only 75% satisfied.

After this we were invited to let our moms come in. My mom, Cathy and my mother-in-law stepped in and asked well, what is it? And before they had come in Victor said don't tell them make them wait. So I answered them with it was a baby! Then told them take it up with Victor because he wanted to wait. He smiled, turned red and said, we are having a boy!

Once the tecnician came back in to give them a little peek and I told him we had a few unbelivers (my mom and mother-in-law) and if he could get another still shot to show he is a boy! A little later we determined that our son will need to be taught a lesson in modesty :)! The shot he showed us was looking down from the head and you could see two perfect little pelvic bones and right out in the middle there it was! There is no denying or second guessing it is pretty much 100%! The technician said he was so sure that if he and Bill Gates made a bet he'd take all of Bill's money ;)!

I have to say it was weird hearing, "You are having a boy." He told me this at around 11:45 and now 6 hours later I am trying to figure out my feelings. They are not feelings of sadness because I didn't care either way, boy or girl. I guess you could describe the feelings as anxious, excited and nervous. If he has said a girl I would have been fine. It seems that there are tons of little girls in my life right now and I am used to them. So for a little boy I am trying to decide what I do with them :)! I know that I will just jump right and realize boy or girl I can figure it out. :)