Yhew.....and we know the gender!!!!

Had my ultrasound this morning for my painful cramping. Everything looked GREAT!!! Cervix was closed and long, the placenta was fully attached and great, and the baby was just fine. The baby was actually measuring ahead!! But that does not come as a surprise to anyone. My family just makes big babies, Julia was always measuring ahead too! The baby was moving and a grooving. Waving and kicking. It was so neat to see. At first the ultrasound tech thought that the placenta might be covering my cervix some, but she switched to a different type of ultrasound and said it looked fine. Not on the cervix at all and higher than she thought.

This was such a feeling of relief!! I was so nervous because these cramps felt exactly like my second miscarriage! Good to know that the cramps are not doing anything other than scaring me. I can live with cramps as long as the baby is not effected by them.

The tech spend a long time measuring everything. She then tried to find out the gender, since we should be able to tell by now. Well I did not think we were going to be able to tell because the baby was sitting Indian style with its legs crossed and feet tucked under its butt! But she finally got the baby to move and we got the money shot!! My gut feeling had been right! We are having a BOY!!!! As soon as he finally moved to were we could see, there was very little doubt he was a boy! With Julia I just knew as soon as I was pregnant that she was a girl. This time I did not have that right away, but I had been getting a pretty strong feeling in the past couple weeks that the baby was a boy. Good to know that my instincts were right.

I was sad that Jerrod was not there to see it, but he will be at my 20 week ultrasound in a couple weeks, so he will get to see it all then!

I am so glad that I have midwives who understand my history and had no problem ordering an ultrasound just to double check that everything was okay and give me the reassurance I needed. I was really scared over this and now can calm down and relax.

We are excited to be having a boy, although we would have been just as happy with another girl. A healthy baby is our main goal! Having one of each will be neat though!