Nine days until the big SNEAK PEEK!

Ok, so I just like to make tickers.

I scheduled the ultrasound! A friend pointed out that we could just go to one of those 3d/4d ultrasound places and get it done on the weekend or after hours.

Why didn't I think of that?

I just scheduled a regular 2d ultrasound for Saturday November 14th at 11 in the morning.

Squeeeeee!

I decided to do 2d because it's only $99, which is similar to what we would pay with co-pay and insurance at the OB's office.

Babies look kind of scary in 3d/4d at 17 weeks. Google some pictures....creepy. I don't really want to see my baby without the chubby fat. You can't tell anything besides bones in the 2d ultrasound, for the most part.

I'll only be 17.5 weeks. Hopefully that is far along enough! They said to schedule it any time after 16 weeks and they have 99% accuracy.

I googled 17 weeks gender ultrasound photos and they look clear to me. Every penis I saw looked big enough to be obvious, and the vagina shows as 3 lines by 17 weeks...

I'm so nervous and excited! I'll be shocked if this baby is a girl, but I will be thrilled for Rosie to have a girl sibling close in age to play girlie games with.

I feel ok getting it done at only 17 weeks because I might be getting another ultrasound later and that could confirm the sex. I have to make one appointment to see my midwife's backup doctor and they might do an anatomy scan there. If it's too far along for a full anatomy scan, then just one to check placental location and all that. I'm going to schedule backup doctor appointment for closer to the middle of 20 weeks, or maybe for around 30 weeks. I haven't thought that far ahead yet really.

So in 9 days I'll know that a) the baby is alive and normal looking, and b) if it's a boy or a girl!!

I can't believe it.

I still feel like this pregnancy is a dream, like it's unreal.

The only things that makes it real are the baby kicks I feel when I'm laying in bed. That, and the overall sick that I am *still* suffering from. I can't believe that hasn't disappeared yet.

Not this weekend, but the next weekend...only one week to wait until the ultrasound!

Aaaaah!

Baby, I hope you are being immodest! If not, they let you come back again for free and check another day...but I don't want to keep frying my poor baby with multiple ultrasound and doppler waves.

Anyway.

Only nine days!!!!!