First off, thanks for sharing in our girl excitement! It is an interesting situation to be SO excited to be having a girl and know at the same time that if we found out we were having a boy we would have been equally excited! It's so fun to know and stop calling the Little One "It"!
The 20 week scan was pretty amazing. The details of the little body were so much easier to see now that she is the size of a weird bumpy Fall squash :)
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| "I'm actually the size of a banana, but Mom squashed it, so squash it is!" No pun intended. |
The placenta is far away from my cervix, so no placenta previa and all the parts checked out exactly right! The most difficult part to see was in between her legs. Apparently we have a modest one! Hopefully that will serve her well in her teenage years ;)
The ultrasound tech got all the way through the scan and said the best she could give us was her best guess. WHAT!?!? I almost lost it because I thought we wouldn't be able to find out. The Doctor came in to do his part of the scan and also revealed that from the images the tech had gotten he was also not sure. Fab. But FINALLY he got a good glimpse and was able to say with 99% certainty that we have a Little Miss growing in there. I'll take those odds.
I must have been giving off strong girl vibes because 99% of people asked thought I was having a girl, but didn't know why. On the day that we saw the heartbeat for the first time, one of the receptionists was the first to predict that we were having a girl. At 6 weeks 4 days. Even strangers who predicted thought girl, so I think I would have been shocked if it was a boy.
Now on with the decorating of the nursery! And of course, some shopping! Shopping for maternity clothes is just not as fun as regular clothes, so I'm going to displace my retail indulgences onto my fetus. Woot woot!
