Well here we are, that baby face you see up above is my baby! It was an amazing site to see when we saw our offspring for the first time. I was so baffle by the images, I for once was speechless. I did not even have a smart ass remark, because I was in complete awww. To think, there is a human being inside my wife, is astonishing. All that said the experience was on of those things I know I will remember for a long time.
The technician asked if we would like to know the sex, both of us replied quickly, "yes." She asked what we were hoping for and I said boy of course. She quickly quieted me with what has happened during her day. "Well you two will be my first boy for the day," I sighed internally and got back to my normal smart ass self and said "Well we are here to break that trend!" I sat back in my chair and just hoped and prayed the baby would be okay. The tech sat in silence and prodded around, the few second that went by without her saying anything, felt like an eternity. All I kept waiting was for her to say is that my little child is normal and healthy. I would love her either way but you know...
She looked at all of her organs, checked the bones and spine and informed us the baby looks good. I was relieved beyond all belief. Another few minutes went by and she asked again if we wanted to know the baby's sex and was answered by a quick yes. As the anticipation built more and more, I kept trying to act like I knew what the hell I was looking at up at the screen. Much to my demise even my smarted brain cell had no idea what was on that black screen. The tech finally looked as though she wanted to speak about what was on the screen, then her face got squinty, she moved her little wand around. "Well," she said, (I was sitting there like come on woman enough with this squinty face, chit chat, speak your mind!) "We are going to do an internal ultra sound. SIGHHGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHHG!!!!!!!............
I showed no emotion but inside was screaming many things and punching the everything in my mind. After the internal ultra sound the tech informed us the baby moved back and was not able to be sure of what the baby's sex is. OOOOHHHHH JEEEEZZZZZZZ!!!!! I yelled in my mind. "Do you want me tell you what I think it is?" the tech asked. We both calmly said yeah sure, "I am not positive but see those three lines, ( yes I remember three lines I believe that is a wiener I said in my head) this generally means a girl." She explained to us that she is not 100% but from what she has seen it is probably a girl.
I really want to start calling that thing in my wife belly by its real name and not just kid or it. For now, I will call it my little girl. That has a crazy little ring to it, my little girl. It seems like just yesterday I graduated from high school, met Carrie, now I am having a kid!?!?! Crazy!
Another thing we got to do during this appointment is meet with the midwife. I am not sure exactly still what she does, but from what I gather, she is the doctor's right hand man. The midwife will deliver the baby if the doctor happens to be unavailable. Also from some of the other articles I have read, the midwife is significantly less expensive as far as bills go, if you have insurance I understand it is not that big of a deal.
All that said we go back in one more month. We will get another ultra sound to try and find out the sex of the baby and make sure everything is still going smooth. I gonna have a little girl, man where did the time go? In the words of my dad HUAH!!!!!
