It's a .....

GIRL!!!!

I went to the MFM this morning.  I was going to meet Jeff there.  The appointment was for 9:45am.  Jeff had surgery this morning that started at 7am and it was going to take a couple of hours.  9:45 was going to be a perfect time for him to come and see the ultrasound.  At 9:30 I text him, then I call him, then I page him.  I got a call back from a number I knew was the other hospital. 

I hear, "Hi, this is Nurse X and I am calling on behalf of Dr. Nelson." 
I said, "Well this is his wife, is he still in surgery?" 
"Yes.  He said you should probably start without him.  He will be there shortly."

So I went in and after explaining to everyone how "Yes, I will be 36 when I give birth, by the baby's age I will be 31." whew!  They needed that info for the transnucal - this is a test where they look at a little flap of skin on the back of the baby's neck and measure the thickness combined with the age of the mother and a finger prick to determine the likelihood of downs syndrom, trisimone? 13 and 18. (3 genetic diseases).  While that IS important, that is not why I was there....show me the "saddle view" please!

He looked and said, "Do you know what your having?"  I said, "A girl?"  He asked, "Did you cheat and look?" - smiling.  I told him that that was what Jeff thought, so I said it.

He then proceeded to make his disclaimer statements to me.  He said, "At 14 weeks I can tell you exactly what you are having and I will not be wrong.  I have been wrong once, I told a girl at 11 weeks what she was having and then on a visit at week 15 realized I was wrong."  He then continued with "You are 13 weeks and I have no doubt that you are having a Girl."

After I had left the office, I paged Jeff again, and the nice nurse called me back.  I asked her to ask Jeff if he wanted me to tell him or if he wanted to see the dvd of the ultrasound.  He thought about it for a moment and said to go ahead and tell him.  I told the nurse it was a girl.  She then said to Jeff, "Dr. Nelson, I know what your having now and you don't...maybe I need to hold this over your head for a little while."  I could hear lots of laughing in the background, then she said, "It's a girl."  I could hear a lot of whooping and hollaring.  Of course Jeff saying, "I knew it."

I met him outside the hospital by his car around 11:30 (it was a nasty surgery that lasted 4 hrs instead of 2).  He just shook his head and said, "Now I really am going to be surrounded by women!"  He did leave me with a chore.  I now need to look for bedding and get paint and everything ready so he can get the nursery together. 

I am now done with my first trimester. I have about 6 months left.  Seems like just yesterday it was New Year's day and I was thinking about the fact that I had 7 months left.  This month has flown by!  It is now time for shopping! :)