Gender Issues During Ultrasounds

Early on I decided that I didn't want to find out what the gender of this baby was. I mean does it really matter when you've had at least one of each. Plus I have talked to several (women) that have said they LOVED waiting until the end to be surprised.

Wesley reluctantly got on board a few months later. :)

He agreed that if that was something I really wanted to do he would support me but he wanted to be clear that I understood it wasn't his preference.

So everything was hunky dory until two days before the exam. And then one thing happened to ALMOST change my mind. All of a sudden I realized that if I wanted to make the baby's blessing outfit I would probably need to know the gender. GOSH! First of all something that little shouldn't be the deciding factor, I mean how annoying and secondly why didn't I think about that before?

Every other little or big thing didn't matter about not knowing to me but I did make Sadie's blessing outfit and I really liked the idea of it. But if I didn't know until the baby was born what the gender was I would have to make one of each AND if I waited until after it was born I would have to make one quickly while taking care of a newborn and three other kids.

So crap.

Why was that one thing such a big deal? I have no idea, let's just chalk it up to pregnancy hormones.

So the day of the ultrasound came. When the technician asked me if we wanted to find out I said I didn't know....yet. I'm sure she was wondering in her mind WHEN exactly I was going to know. I'm also sure hoping I'm no the only one that has done that. :)

Novalee kept asking during the ultrasound, so is it a girl or a boy. Over and over again so I finally was like, "I guess we need to find out but we don't want to tell the kids just yet so is there a way to do it without her (Novalee) knowing?"

After some thinking the technician said she could put XY or XX on the screen and I'm sure she also mentally put us down as the crazy family. :)

Well it came to that point, the technician scanned over to the lower part of the baby's body and I could have sworn I saw something like a boy part (like I'm a pro at reading ultrasounds) but then the technician put on the screen XX. She also said something funny however probably not appropriate that would clue us in that it was a GIRL.

I didn't catch it. I was still caught up in my mind that it was a boy. Did you know I made a boy baby blanket with HIS name on it? I did. So naturally I immediately started wondering if I knew my chromosomes.

(Novalee by the way has from the very beginning called it a girl. She would rub her hands on my belly and say, "Your such a good girl! Aren't you, aren't you!".)

Later that day at my appointment I was still "wondering" if I knew my chromosomes and when the midwife asked me if I found out, I said I think so...haha.

She confirmed it.

A girl.

I don't know why I wanted to wait and be surprised. I've never really had to deal with surprises much, I generally know what's coming. I should have known that being surprised wouldn't have worked out well for me. I'm terrible with surprises.

This time was no different. :)

AND I still wonder if the technician didn't look well enough. :)

However we are NOW pretty convinced it's a girl and we are really excited ! We are also glad she is healthy according to the ultrasound. :) We keep laughing at how crazy our house is going to be with three girls, especially during their teen years. :)

Yay for our little girl!

Now to decide on a name...