The short report from the ultrasound: everything looks great, the baby is perfectly healthy, and it is a girl.
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| From 2013 June |
The ultrasound was more anticlimactic than it was with Nicholas. This was in part because with Cashew we'd had a 12 week ultrasound and honestly she looks about the same to our untrained eyes on a fuzzy ultrasound screen, whereas with Nicholas we hadn't seen him since he was a circular blob with a flashing dot for a heartbeat and so were amazed to see him looking like a, well, baby. It was also just a difference in the way this tech/facility did the ultrasound. With Nicholas it lasted over an hour as she measured each bone and organ, whereas this tech got the screengrabs she needed in like 20 minutes and then did the measurements from those afterwards.
We had decided years ago that we'd find out the sex of the next baby and make it public, mostly so that Nicholas could know, figuring that would make it more concrete for him. When at some point a couple weeks ago Nicholas decided it was a girl baby, we were really glad we had made that decision because we figured that if it was a boy we needed to set him straight soon. I figured out that everyone he knows who has had a baby in the past year has had a girl and all his friends with little siblings somehow all have sisters (a bunch have older brothers), so it made sense that he would assume girl. But Nicholas is never wrong. (He really isn't--it is creepy.)
And Nicholas was ecstatic when told he was right. Why? Because he wants to go buy her dresses. Grandma Alice, do you want a shopping buddy?
Nicholas has also decided that his baby sister has curly red hair. And while it is entirely likely that she will end up with curly red hair, I think he expects to see her with curls down to her shoulders the day she is born. Joe's comment is that we should warn the doctor, since Nicholas is always right.
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