Week 28 – “Peepee teepees” it is!

Let’s just say we saw “the goods’!! It’s a boy!! We had our ultrasound at UC Baby and it was so neat. We arrived there at around 2:45pm and they took us in right away. I was laid out on the ultrasound chair and both of our families took their seats on the couches in front of a plasma TV. Introducing our Little Bean!! The ultrasound tech. alternated between 2D and 3D pictures. The 3D pictures were amazing, as you could get such a good glimpse of our baby’s features. Such a cute button nose, and my mom remarked on the ‘beautiful lips’. For about the first 20 minutes, the ultrasound tech said she was 90% sure it was a girl. Nothing obvious showing up, but still a bit hard to say for sure. The baby was in the frank breech position which made it tougher to get some good pictures, so I was trying different positions on my sides.

As we all stared at the screen at the new baby ‘girl’, out of nowhere popped out something on the screen. Freeze frame! It was a penis! It was a boy!! So, now Nathan was beaming a little brighter and we now knew 100% who was making their way into this world in just a few more months :)

After about 45 minutes, we were given a DVD video and pictures to take with us. So neat! We are keeping the name a secret until he is born, but when Nathan & I are alone, it is so nice to be able to talk to our little boy by name. So nice not to have to say “it’ anymore. :) Plans are underway for the nursery and collecting baby things. It’s hard to believe there are only 12 weeks to go. Time is going by VERY quickly!

Today we had our doctor appointment. Our baby was breech on Friday at UC Baby, so I was reading online over the weekend ways that you can try to encourage the baby to turn. About 25% of babies are breech at this stage, so I wasn’t too worried, but definitely was interested in any techniques I could do to encourage the little man to go head down. One of the common things it said? To talk to your baby and encourage them to. Sounds so silly, but I’ll admit it, I tried it! I talked to the little guy all weekend encouraging him to turn around for us. Hehe :) Well today we went in for our doctor appointment and the first thing the doctor said was that our baby was in perfect position. I sat right up in disbelief, and asked her was she sure? The baby was in frank breech just on Friday. She checked again to double check and sure enough the baby had done a full 180 turnaround. I was so proud of the little guy. :) Nathan said to take in the moments now as in a few years he may not listen oh so well. Hehe :)

So all is looking good, progressing as normal. I measure 28 cms (for 28 weeks), have now ‘officially’ gained 15 pounds and everything is good. Our appointments with the doctor are usually about 5 minutes long, pretty quick. I hope my labour goes as smoothly as this pregnancy has! My glucose test also came back good. Yay! Our next appointment is in 2 weeks and every couple of weeks from here on in.

Now to find the peepee teepees! :)