This week was a big week for us! We found out we're having a boy! I've never been more excited, relieved, happy, so many words come to mind about this baby. This pregnancy has been a nerve-racking process and all of a sudden I have an overwhelming feeling of relief. I guess working in the industry I do and my natural ability to over worry I've built up a lot of anxiety. We had a full bio-physical profile ultrasound of this baby where we looked at everything...I mean everything. It is quite amazing how much we already know about this baby! We looked at all the extremities, brain, heart, abdomen and all in detail. We looked at the heart beat, did a mini-ekg, checked out the placenta and the blood flow to and from. It was amazing to see all this going on inside me and without my direction. It's truly amazing how life starts and grows all without my conscious help. The human body has always fascinated me but this is by far it's greatest achievement. Through all my morning sickness, food poising, a cold, lack of sleep and good nutrition at times it's easy to imagine how the development of this child could go wrong...at least that's the way I think. But, I guess, these bumps in the road our body's are use to and possibly makes our genes stronger. In our history of man, our in utero-babies have survived much worse I know. Although we don't have the final report about the ultrasound, it made me feel better...just knowing if there is something wrong we should know if not by now at least very soon. The ultrasound tech was wonderful. She was a pro! The little guy of coarse made it difficult for her. The little guy was hiding behind my belly button with his face pointed up with his hands covering his face. So we really didn't get to "see" his face very well. She had to do a lot of the ultrasound from my side. But when it came to the sex, well that was easy. He was sitting with his legs wide open for the world to see. We all looked at the monitor and said, BOY! It didn't take an ultrasound tech to figure that out! That was about the clearest shot we got. The ultrasound took about an hour and we didn't find out the sex until the 59th minute. So there was a lot of build up...very exciting! Jane then excused herself for a, "call" and brought back a celebratory balloon that said, "It's a boy" She had both ready in the car. We were so touched and excited we had to take a picture! It was a great day! Even though, poor Mike, had emergency tooth surgery that morning where they had to pull a wisdom tooth that had fused to his jaw...so incidentally had a bit of his jaw removed. So if he looks a little 'out of it' in that picture it's because half his face was numb and was a few deep in vicodin. I was amazed he even made it to the appointment at all. He's much better now and healing well. OK enough rambling for today..
xoxo Kim
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