Hello Baby!

I saw my doctor for the 2nd time on March 21 and had my 12 week nuchal translucency ultrasound.   Don was super busy because he had been out of town the week before and since they would not be able to tell us much about whether the baby was a boy or a girl, he stayed home and worked.  I waited for about 40 minutes to do the ultrasound because the guy was running behind.  That took less than 10 minutes and then I had to wait to see the doctor then wait again to do my bloodwork.  I shouldn't complain though because in the past I would have to go to a different place for the labs and another place for the ultrasound but my doctor does everything all in his office so that makes it much easier.  The nuchal translucency  measured 1.6mm. The doctor said that was fine (abnormal is 2.5 and above) but because I am 35, the lab doing my blood work may come back and say abnormal because the chances for Down Syndrome go up after 35. He said not to worry about it. They also took 11 vials of blood-yes that number is correct- 11! I asked the woman doing the draw if I would be able to walk out of there on my own!  She said that I would be fine.  She did use a pediatric needle thing though because my veins are such crap!  It took longer to get all that blood but did not hurt as much.  The baby measured 59.7mm crown to rump length (crl). We got a good profile shot of the baby and so we decided to tell the kids. We brought the boys into the family room and had them sit on the couch.  Don told them that he needed them to start being more responsible and helping more around the house and doing their laundry and stuff like that.  They were a little perplexed until he got out the ultrasound picture and showed them why mom needed help.  Cayden started screaming "we have a baby sister" even though we won't know for another 5 weeks when we can do the 3/d 4/d u/s. Connor had about a million questions and had made lots of decisions in the 3 minutes-like I was not going to have the baby at the fair (in April), that he and his dad would not go hunting, and that their dad could not travel when it got close to time for the baby. He also said that he thought we were going to tell them that I had cancer or a tumor.  Apparently the word "pregnant" is fun to say for boys so we asked them to please say that "mom's expecting". They wanted to call all the grandparents, and aunts and uncles and said that they will be telling their teachers tomorrow. Cayden has been following me around non-stop and wants to keep touching my belly even though there is nothing there yet and he wants to talk to the baby. Atleast they are all excited.  Connor wants to have a family council to decide the baby's name-he likes Delilah-I told him no. Caleb likes Chloe and Lilly.  Cody is sort of non communicative on the whole thing. I did ask him if he saw the u/s pic and he said that he did and he thought it was a good one. So other than a 2 hour appointment, it was a good day. I was exhausted though! We sent this picture to Grandma Penny and she is sure that this is a female profile.  We will see!