Our Ultrasound

Had our main ultrasound for baby nelson the sequel today. I was really looking forward to it to see baby as well as hopefully find out gender. I also invited our moms to the ultrasound when I found out my mom would be in town for her own doctor's appointment that day (and Mary lives here already).

Our appointment was in Edmonton at the Tawa Center which is right near the Grey Nuns hospital (where I'll be delivering). I was a little flustered before the appointment because Tyler had taken my mom to her's that morning and they were both still there. So I had to get myself and Dexter to the appointment and he was being somewhat uncooperative. Also, I wasn't 100% sure where the building was as it wasn't labelled well (turns out we were in the correct parking lot three times).  So I just made it to the appointment on time, but arrived flustered.

I went in by myself first, and the tech asked me right away if I wanted to know gender and if I wanted her to tell me as soon as she saw or when my whole posse was there (my words). Within two minutes she said "I know what it is, do you want to know now?" I opted to know right away, but asked her to tell the posse for me. She said "it's a boy" to wish I kind of paused and said "exciting"...as I had a feeling it was a girl, which was obviously wrong LOL  She got the shots she needed quite easily which took about 1/2 hour and also asked me if I'd want a picture (are there people who say no?), I said yes as I'm a scrapbooker. Turns out she is too, so she tried to get me a good profile pic (it looks better than Dexter's but I still feel like I could have gotten a few more good shots).

She then went out to get Tyler, Dexter, my mom & Mary. The group piled in beside my bed and she turned the screen to face us all. She showed baby, baby moved quite a bit and she said baby was active [oh heartrate was 166]. Then she pulled up a bum shot - I recognized it right away, she used her mouse to say, here is one leg, here is another, oh & here is the third leg which means "You're having a boy!" It was a great way to share the news :-) That was about it.  I got dressed and she gave me the disc which had these three pictures above. 

Now that we know that it's a boy, we'll start brainstorming for baby names.  Should be interesting!  The good news about having another boy is that I need minimal new stuff so the budget stays intact, and we've had a boy so it won't seem as foreign to us when he is born. On the negative side, the need to buy him tutu's is less...girl names are much more fun to choose from...and I now have to decide where we want to circumsize him at (a question for my new doctor I'm sure).

I have an appointment with my GP on Thursday to go over the ultrasound and make sure everything is in order. Then next week, September 7th, I'll be meeting my delivering doctor who will do my prenatal appointments for the rest of the pregnancy. She's in Edmonton.