Last Monday we had our ultrasound revealing the gender. I want to recap that first for memories sake before I move on to anything else…
My appointment was right after work at 3 and Todd met me at the doctors office. We were very anxious to see if everything was looking healthy and find out the gender. I was real quiet in the waiting room and couldn't concentrate on anything (I tried playing on my phone). Todd actually paced back and forth a few times. The same carried over into the actual ultrasound room which by the way was nothing as to what I expected.
We were in this big room, the lights really dim and a TV on the wall so I could easily see the ultrasound. I guess they know people are anxious because the most beautiful calming music was playing in the background. The ultrasound began right away and immediately we saw our baby on the screen. What an amazing sight!
Our babe was flipping around like crazy which was fun to see. The nurse checked everything…the heart/legs/arms/spine/brain/etc. Again, I was super quiet and Todd was freaking out in excitment. She asked if we wanted to know the gender immediately and we both agreed that we did. Within moments she said, "here we go…
it's a girl!"
I cried slow tears of happiness and rejoiced internally while holding Todd's hand. Todd was way more vocal with his excitement. We were both thrilled for a healthy baby girl but reacted so differently. He was surprised with my reaction since I'm normally a loud person but it was such a special moment. My heart overflowed with thankfulness. It was so great and by this way this makes the ninth girl between both sets of families (no boys)! Right then and there we knew her name since we had previously carefully chosen and prayed over a name. More to come on the name in another post.
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| I think that she has Todd's head :) |
We couldn't wait to share our news with our friends and family so we called our parents and family first. Then we went to buy our very first piece of baby clothing to mark this milestone in building our family and blasted it all over social media as proud soon to be parents.
Now here we are…halfway at 20 weeks (photo on the right)! Sorry for the blurry photos.
I've had some not so fun things occurring but nothing life threatening to me or the baby so I'm very thankful and feel like I have no room to complain at all. The heartburn did start today for the first time. I've heard people talk about this before while being pregnant and there was no mistaking what it was. Sleeping is a little rough sometimes especially right now as I have a head cold and can barely breath out of my nose. I have yet to feel her move yet so I'm eagerly awaiting that moment. In all, it's all good! Thanks for reading and following along! Keep praying for good health!
-Sara