I feel like it's taken FOREVER for this day to come! I went to the doctor when I was at 17 weeks and tried to beg him to let me see the gender. He refused! All I was going to get was the baby's heart beat. I thought, THAT'S IT? For a 50 dollar appointment, I expected more. He said, well, we won't be able to see much at this point, it'd be a waste of your money. In another month or so, we will have you come back in and we will get to see and measure everything. My thoughts: A MONTH!? I started to tear up at the thought that I wouldn't get to see my baby for a WHOLE MONTH! The last time I saw him was at 11 weeks. He asked me, is that ok? I bluntly said NO! I want to see my baby! I think I started to scare him and so he said, okay okay! We can't have and upset pregnant lady. We will do an ultrasound just for fun. Sooo...I that held me over until my 20 week appointment.
At the 20 week ultrasound, the baby was turned away as well as breech. Which made it really difficult to take a peek at the gender. (He said it is still normal at this point for the baby to flip back and forth from normal to breech position) The first picture was hard to tell which made me really scared that we weren't going to get to find out at this appointment. I had been look forward to this and loosing sleep over it! I was NOT going to leave empty handed! -I am becoming less and less pleased with my doctor anyway because he has seemed kinda careless the last couple of appointments...like he was just there to do his job. The first appointment was great! He seemed really excited and was even offering me to give him calls at 3am if needed! I thought what a great doctor!...not so much anymore!-
ANYWAY!!! He pushed even harder with the ultrasound thingy and probed around some more until we saw the DEFINITE sign of being a boy! I think Tyler was really shocked. I was just SO relieved to KNOW FINALLY!!! I was so excited to get to start shopping! But then I was told not to get any big stuff yet until I have my baby shower. I see wisdom in that. But it is SO hard when I have a room just WAITING to get fixed up.
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We also start our birthing classes next month! I am SUPER excited for that! I think I will feel so much better to have a better education about the birthing process. I feel prepared with my knowledge on my child's development, but not on birthing. I know it will be such a spiritual experience and that it will bring me an my husband to whole other level. It's going to be great! I am loving where I am in life. I am feeling SO TRULY blessed!
I also went to my friend's baby blessing today. That got me excited too! To just imagine Tyler up there blessing our baby boy. I will admit, I teared up a bit. I hear that time goes by faster from now on. I hope that's true! :)
