Positive Vibes!

So we just had our 28 week ultrasound. It was the first time I left the office feeling optimistic. Our baby is growing normally, and the placenta is migrating upward slowly. YAY! The doctor said he'd be surprised if it wasn't completely resolved by delivery time.... Oh joy! A positive update! And the baby is growing well, all within normal parameters! We also got more baby photos... the little face again (somehow these are strange and scary to me).... and the news that we are having a BOY!

We had initially decided to wait. Well, I had said at the very beginning that we've had our one BIG surprise, why bother with another? But then after further discussion we thought it would be fun to wait and so we avoiding it at our 20 week ultrasound. Well, I avoided it. Andrew, it seems, while we were being shown the upper legs was looking between the legs and was then certain he had seen something! And then began his 8 weeks of torture....is it or isn't it a boy?

Had he, in fact, seen what he thought he saw? So now he thought it was a boy but was not sure. Of course he wasn't, he isn't skilled at reading those images. Images my dad said resemble a recently driven through mud puddle. Well, nonetheless, Andrew was in mild agony and began asking whether we shouldn't in fact just find out! It seemed terribly ironic that our next ultrasound appointment wouldn't be until the Thursday before heading to Florida for a baby shower where no one yet knows the sex! Oh well, we'll have a surprise for everyone!

So yes, a big ultrasound day was had! We were given good news, and now know I'm growing a penis inside of me!

I hope all things continue to go well, I'd love to birth at Bryn Mawr's birthing center but if it turns out we have to be under an OB's care and birth at a hospital, so be it.
Come on placenta keep working your way up.