Life After IVF: 12

We just recently had our 20 week ultrasound! It was like over an hour long! The technician looked at every little detail. She went through the parts of the brain, the bones in the arms, the hands, the knuckles, the legs, everything. She checked for cleft palate and club feet. Obviously, we have never been through this before so we had no idea it was this intricate! I really didn’t know what I was looking at half the time but she explained everything as she went along. When we got to the gender part, she just had us close our eyes. She gave us a cute little scratch off card that had the gender on it. We had decided that we wanted to do our own special gender reveal so we didn’t want to know at the appointment. We really didn’t care if we had a girl or boy, we just want a healthy baby! We feel so blessed either way! I have been convinced it is a boy basically the whole time. I sometimes would call it “him” and Brock would correct me. I am not sure why, but ever since the very first time I saw it on the screen I just felt like it was a boy so that’s the feeling I was going off of. Many of my co workers, family, and even strangers are guessing that I am having a boy. It wasn’t up until just a couple weeks ago that reality really started to set in. I tried to think about if it was actually a girl, but for some reason I just couldn’t envision it. Because we have been planning for a child for several years, I have basically everything I need. I have clothes for both boy and girl. I do have more boy clothes because of certain hand me downs or I acquired them for free. I figure that even if it is a girl, there are a lot of boy clothes like frog or puppy onesies that a girl could wear. And either way, this baby is wearing Packers, Camo, and overalls! What do you think we are having???

And for now,

Xoxo