FirstNoel's Journal: Week 20, it's a girl!

We enter week 20 now knowing that we shall have a daughter.

Madelyn {something} ... Haven't decided on a middle name yet.

We had another set of ultrasounds done today. I'm thinking by the end we will have a flip book; "Here's one when you were a blob. (ala Stern), Here's one when your fingers were just nubs, here's one where you looked like Charlie Brown...etc

Amy is doing well, she not nearly as big this time. For some reason it's reassuring. We, as a couple, are starting to come out of our protective shell. It's really tough not getting excited, but at the same time we need to get excited to a point. We don't want to get burned again, but we also want to bond with Maddy as much as possible. It's a weird balancing act. I think if we can get passed we 25 then we'll breathe a brief sigh of relief. Then we need to get past Zach's birthday. Dang, his first birthday is coming up fast. I think I scheduled the day off. That will probably be a tough day for both Amy and me.

It helps knowing though that he's looking out for us, and his baby sister. In a way I wish I could have both of them, Zach and Madelyn. But I know I couldn't. That's one of the cruel twists of life.

We went shopping after the sonagram, we bought 2 newborn girl outfits, and a pink bunny. I picked out the bunny. Amy and I have this agreement, I think we do atleast, we can start buying stuff now. However if we lose Madelyn, everything we bought will get donated to some charity.

In the mean time, I'm planning on enjoying the fact that we have a daughter, who seems to be healthy. And from now on I will always have one.

One saying keeps ringing in my ears:
"When you have a boy, all you worry about is one little boy.
  When you have a girl, you worry about all the little boys" - not sure who said it, but I like it.

Sean D.

How good of an ultrasound?

[FortKnox]

Cause usually its a 'boy' or its 'unknown'. But it depends on the tech. Our tech was able to identify the 'girl parts' individually cause jenna was kind enough to be spread eagle at one of the checkups ;)

So, don't get TOO much on the idea of a girl, unless it was a 95%...

Re:How good of an ultrasound?

[FirstNoel]

It was a good ultrasound, you can pretty easily tell that they are girl parts and not boy parts.

I was kind of wondering about this too. The lady doing the sonagram was able to get some really good images this time. There was definitely no penis in sight.

She explained to us about the 3 lines for a girl, which were definitely there.

Well anyway will just end up with a boy named Madelyn. poor kid....

Sean D.

Thanks for the update

[johndiii]

I am glad to hear that things are going well. My prayers are with you.

Re:Thanks for the update

[Iamthefallen]

Ditto.

turtles and hamburgers

[sparky4]

a friend had an ultrasound and the tech mentioned hamburger being the sex when what my friend wanted to hear was turtle. good visual names if one has ever seen the ultrasounds.

Re:turtles and hamburgers

[FirstNoel]

That is a good way of putting it. It is kind of hard explaining what it is exactly we're looking at.

Sean D.

you have a gift sir

[elmegil]

That will probably be a tough day for both Amy and me.

For understatement :-)

And that little girl too....

We had a not-really-a birthday party for our Zach. Nothing all festive, but invited over friends and family who had supported us through the worst of it, blew bubbles together, and thanked everyone for their support. And had a nice understated cake.