This particular blog is accompanied with a pregnancy dream because I had a silly dream the night before Chef and I went in to check on our little nugget.
Doctor's Office Presents
So Chef and I went in for our anatomy scan and gender reveal at the Drs. office. This was the first time we've been to an actual doctor for the pregnancy and didn't know what to expect. We went in for our scan and they looked at the baby and did all of the appropriate measurements, told us baby looked okay and we got some pictures. I asked the ultrasound tech, "So is it a boy or a girl?" She said, "We don't tell our patients during the visit. You'll be handed a box for you to open once you get outside." I thought that was weird but I don't question things in my dreams, I just go with the flow. Chef and I were handed this huge wrapped box that had a blue and pink wrapping paper all over it. We opened the box and helium filled balloons came out with "It's A Girl!" written all over them....then I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep.
Before I reveal the sex of the baby I'll let you know how the anatomy scan went at the doctor's office. Since I'm not a normal patient of this doctor they needed to get me in the system. They needed my insurance card and all that crap. That took a little bit of time because I don't carry my insurance info on me at all times. The receptionist suggested that I just pay it all up front and I looked at her like she was crazy. Nice trap, but I'm not falling for it. I told her that the birth center had all of my insurance info on file and to get them to fax it over. It worked! Now that I was "in" they took my picture (I have to come back at 37 weeks) and we went in the back for our scan. Warm goobledy-goop on my belly and we went searching for baby. We hadn't seen the baby since our first scan at 9 weeks so I was interested to see how much growth had occurred. The tech measured babies abdomen, head, leg length and looked for internal organs. The ultrasound tech made sure to tell me while she was measuring the baby's legs that they were long. She said, "Whoa, this baby is gonna be tall like momma." Based on the measurements she could even estimate how much the baby weighs. She also pulled out a little doll that is the size of my baby at this stage to show me how it was positioned in my uterus. Baby was head down on the left side and legs up towards my belly button on the right. It makes a lot of sense based on the movement I had been feeling. Baby had been head butting me in the bladder making me feel like I have to pee or am peeing on myself. I like the tech, she was very engaging and asked us about the names we had chosen so far and what we predict the baby will be and everything. She finished up all the measurements and went looking for genitalia. I saw little legs on the screen wiggling back and forth and the tech said, "It looks like you're having a little girl! Here are her labias." Stop the presses. These ultrasound machines are getting way too detailed. She labeled my daughter's girl parts and I refuse to show anyone that picture. She tried to get some good pictures of the baby for us but since the baby was facing the probe, I don't have any of those really nice profile pictures. Just a face forward picture where you can see her eye sockets. It's very alienesque. My weird dream the night before the scan was right, Chef and I are having a little girl.
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