halfway there

we came home from work today and there was a baby on our doorstep.

ok, no.  but there was a baby carrier on our doorstep.  the first registry item made its way to our house today, courtesy of my uncle and aunt in miami.  the little stack of baby stuff we've been slowly accumulating - a hat, a couple of bibs, etc - is one thing, but having a car seat/infant carrier sitting in our living room is just wack.  it's like we're going to have an actual baby here soon, or something.  haha!  that's crazy talk!

OH YEAH: IT'S A GIRL

so we had our 20 week ultrasound on friday!  it was so incredibly cool. i feel a lot of kicks and squirms these days* but apparently there's a lot going on in there that i can't feel, too.  anyway so the tech puts the gel on my belly and starts doing her thing.  the first thing we could see was the head and the belly, and then the picture changed and i said, "is that the little butt?"  the tech said it was.

now, i am a google MD, and our sweet baby was in a highly unladylike position. i saw the hamburger.  at least, i was about 90% sure i had seen the hamburger**.  i said, "is that the hamburger thing, the three lines, the girl anatomy, right there?"  the tech said, "i'll come back around and do the sex at the end.  otherwise everyone laughs too much."   gah!  but i was pretty sure.

anyway, finally, after doing a bunch of silly stuff like making sure all four chambers of the heart were there and that the brain looked brainy and kidneys looked kidney-ey and measuring limbs and stuff, she finally confirmed that indeed, we are having a girl.  yay!  we would have been happy either way, of course.  it's just nice to know and be able to address her by her name and call her "her" instead of it.

i wasn't thrilled with either the quality or the quantity of pictures printed out for us - they come nowhere near the experience of actually seeing her on the screen.  the best one we got somehow makes her spine look melded to her umbilical cord, and the effect is very tail-like.  and having a tail is so 8 weeks, mom. 

* you know this already if you've been following my twitters, which you can find over there on the right providing fascinating updates between posts - microblogging!  because i have microthoughts! - but it was just a couple of days after that post down there that i felt a couple of distinct kicks, and in the past 2 weeks or so it's become downright powerful and startling and frequent.  i sometimes bust out laughing when a particularly strong one takes me by surprise... it tickles a little, but mostly because it's just so damn cute.  anyway, i'm not sure if i'll make it back to the big gay pregnancy group since our bradley method classes kind of interfere with the timing, but at least i know that i won. 

** rebecca hates it when i say "hamburger" in this context.  she says it's gross.  i'm sorry, honey.  that's just what teh interweb calls it!

Comments

[Ross]

Wow! Great photo!

Congrats on the girliness, too.

Also, does spotting the "hamburger" before the tech is willing to tell you make you a Hamburgler? :)

[Russ]

Look at you lookin' all pregnant!