Surprisingly, instead of getting there really early - which I was afraid we would do - we barely made it in time for our appointment. This was due in part to the fact that both of the elevators near our apartment chose that morning to be broken down. We had to get pretty creative using stairs and a third elevator that's not anywhere near us just to get down to the car.
We got to look at our beautiful baby for around half an hour. The ultrasound tech looked at all of the bones, organs, and placenta just to make sure things were looking functional and properly developed. Everything looked beautiful and she was able to get some good photos. This one below was actually to measure the placenta, and the little one just happened to have a foot right next to it, so we got a nice foot shot.
The surprise of the morning was when she got the following shot, which made the gender rather obvious:
Since Tom and I had both thought it was going to be a girl, we started laughing. This, of course, made the baby kick me more, lol. He's been a pretty active kid for quite awhile. The midwife didn't believe I had started feeling movement just before 15 weeks, but I was certain that's what I was feeling. Now in the ultrasound we came to discover that our little boy is so big he's measuring about two weeks ahead of average. It's no wonder I felt him so early! It looks like he will probably NEVER be wearing newborn size clothes, but I guess since his daddy was 10.5 pounds as a baby I shouldn't be surprised. Here's a shot that shows a little of his action:
Sometime in the next few weeks we're going to get to have a 3D ultrasound done as well (and get paid for it, how can you complain about that?). We're looking forward to seeing our little guy a little more clearly.
-Amy
