IT'S A...................
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - Posted by Danielle at 6:37 PM
My next appointment isn't actually until September 30th, which is when we planned on finding out the sex of the baby. Well, my sister-in-law (Mark's brother's wife), is an x-ray tech at a nearby hospital. She graciously offered to let us come in and she would take a look for us to see if she could tell.
This afternoon, we met up with her and it was such an amazing, cool experience!!!! We all discussed what we thought the baby might be or what gut feelings we've had. Mark has had dreams that it's a boy, and dreams that it's a girl. I've had just a gut feeling that it's a boy. She scanned around for 10 minutes or so and then Mark's brother, Dan, showed up with their two kids, Jacob & Lily. It was such a neat experience I will never forget; while Darci scanned around for another 30 minutes or so, Jacob crawled up on the bed with me and kept saying "Mommy, what are you doing?" and "Aunt Danielle, what's mommy doing to your belly?!" He was so intrigued and Lily was interested in sitting with me for a couple of minutes but then just wanted to play with all the goop on my belly :) It was so fun though and turned into a family affair!
Darci primarily does x-ray, however, she sits in on lots of ultrasounds and did it to herself for their two kids and to her sister and was 3 for 3 on those. So, she was about 90% sure by the time she got done. We got several good shots and we can say fairly confidently that.....
IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was only one shot that made it questionable, but we all decided that what we saw was probably umbilical cord. Each of the other pictures were much more "girl-part-looking!"
WE ARE THRILLED!!!!!! Now we can actually start calling our baby girl by name (assuming we don't slip since it's still a surprise!!) and can start buying things for her. I told Mark that I am not even the slightest bit disappointed - my reaction has just been that I am incredibly taken off guard by it! I've been so convinced by this gut feeling and so many people have said from the picture or "a feeling" that they thought it was a boy too. With all of that, I've totally had my head in the mindset that we were going to have a boy (even though I really had nothing to go by!!) I am thrilled though and can't wait to welcome our DAUGHTER into this world!!
We love you baby girl Fletcher!!!
