And The Verdict Is...

Well, after referring to the baby in my belly as a "he" for the past 20 weeks, we can finally start calling it a "SHE"!  Mark and I went to the doctor yesterday, and finally got to solve the big mystery.  We're having a girl!  From the very beginning, we thought we were having a boy.  Everyone I talked to at work, everyone at the dentist office, the Chinese Astrology website, etc., all thought we were going to have a boy.  Our friend Katherine, who works at Pregnancy and Newborn magazine gave us a free gender prediction test (normally retails for about $30.00) called Intelligender.  It was a urine test that is best taken in the morning, just like a pregnancy test.  If it turns green within 15 minutes, it's a boy, and if it turns orange it's a girl.  Ours turned green immediately, so that only fueled our fire for thinking this was going to be a boy.  I had a doctor's appointment the following week, so I tentatively told her about it to see what she thought.  I thought she was going to make me feel like an idiot for bring it up, but she didn't.  She said she'd heard of tests like that being somewhat accurate.  And, she said she was more likely to believe it because it said boy...because if it said girl, who's to know if it's not just picking up on my hormones or something.  Anyway, so we had our minds made up that this was going to be a boy.  We got to the doctor's office 15 minutes early, because we were both so excited.  They took my blood pressure right away, and the nurse asked me if we had gotten stuck in traffic, because my it was higher than normal.  I said no...that I was just extremely excited.  I had also had a few sips of coke to get a slight sugar buzz before going back there, so hopefully we would wake the baby up.  We wanted to make sure we would get her into a good position so we could see what we were going to have.  So, then we waited...and waited...and waited...an hour later, they finally called us back there.  By that time Mark and I were pretty ticked off.  Unfortunately, the excitement had turned sour.  I had my appointment with the regular OBGYN first, since the Ultrasound OBGYN was still backed up.  Then, we went back to see Dr. Moore.  Once we got the picture up on the screen, we weren't mad anymore.  It's so fascinating to actually see this thing move around inside me (which I'm still not really feeling, by the way).  He checked out the heart to make sure the chambers were separated as they should be, he measured and said that the baby was about 13 oz, and he checked the face for abnormalities (like cleft palate) and saw that everything was as it should be.  Finally, he got to the big news, and asked if we had a guess.  Of course, we said boy...and he said nope...it's a girl.  Immediately, he started shutting everything down and taking notes.  Mark said...are you sure?  The doctor said yes, and kept on packing it up.  Then, Mark said...are you sure you got a good look? (because he didn't seem to take very long to decide)  The doctor said, he hadn't been wrong in 7 years with someone at week 20...so we decided that he must know what he's talking about.  Needless to say, we're thrilled either way.  We know just how lucky we are to be blessed with this.  Now, we've got a long wait ahead until we actually get to meet her! 

p.s. recognition goes to Jean...for being one of the only people to guess that this would be a girl!