Ugh! The doctors visit couldn't have been a bigger downer!
As EVERYONE knows, we were SO excited about todays doctors visit! We even color coordinated ourselves with what we wanted....I was in a lovely light pink polo and Chad was dressed in a stylish baby blue Express t-shirt. (HAHA!) Yes, the ladies at the doctors office loved it....and got a great laugh out of it.
Once we were called back Marcia immediately started the ultrasound......I had Mom, Dad, Dawn, and Chris all on Skype......Chad had the video camera going and we were ready. 1 minute went by, 2minutes, oh wait Marcia thinks she sees a "turtle"......nope, not a "turtle", it's the umbilical cord......ooop, another shot of a "turtle"......nope, umbilical cord again......5 minutes, 6 minutes......finally she gave up and said she just wasn't confident enough with what she could see to tell for sure what it was. My heart sank. I don't think it's so much that I care what the sex is but I feel like it's more of a bonding experience when I can put a gender to it. And we are really ready to narrow down some names......that's something we are having a hard time agreeing on.
A little bit later the doctor came and and asked what we saw. I think he saw my disappointment when I told him we couldn't see for sure and he got me up on that table to try again. He had a little bit of a hard time as well. Baby's tushy was hiked up just fine but it was being a little modest and the umbilical cord was blocking some of the necessary viewing area. Doc said if the umbilical cord was the "turtle" then we'd have a "Johnson" on our hands....Chad said we'd be having a paternity test on our hands. HAHAHA!
At the end of it all the doctor didn't see any boy parts, said he is pretty sure it is a girl but to not start any shopping just yet. :-( He told us that we could stop by anytime and he would try again. Chad leaves Wednesday morning to go back out on the road till Sunday so we are going to pop back in next Monday (with our color coded shirts) and see what happens!
We decided to test for Down Syndrome as well today so we should have those results within the next day or two. Chad and I thought it best to know if anything is wrong so that we can atleast start researching and be as prepared as we can.
In conclusion, we will try again for the gender determination next Monday. If nothing then, we do have an appointment the following Monday so we'll try again then. May 11th is my next official apppointment and they'll do another form of ultrasound so that they can see the growth, etc, etc. I will keep everyone updated!
Love to everyone,
Court, Chad and the little modest one
