Sunshine, Rainbows and Bananas

We went yesterday for our 20 week ultrasound, gender reveal and check-up.  We didn't tell anyone of our appointment time so we could just keep our phones and facebook walls quiet from curiosity....especially because if we were lucky enough to find out, we are going to keep it a secret until we go to the beach with the Dolinski/Gonya clan in two weeks.

We were lucky.  Baby G revealed the sex and was super adorable in the ultrasound video/pictures.  Baby was sleeping soundly though, and being quite modest for the first part...despite the sugar I ate on the way to the appointment (in reality, little G was probably having a sugar CRASH! haha).  It was the most beautiful experience to see our little wonder sucking the fluid and moving it's arms/legs around trying to get comfortable.  The tech was able to get a full anatomy scan, but wants us to come back in three weeks to get better pictures of the brain since the head was allllll the way down under.  Good news....we will have even more/better pictures of baby G, which we will be able to share at that point with everyone!

I checked out healthy as well.  Good fluid levels, good placenta position and very healthy weight gain so far.  The baby is likely going to be BIG...already weighing in the 67th percentile at 10oz (generally, babies weigh 7oz at 19 weeks).  It was also NO surprise that baby's head was measuring two weeks ahead in size.  Guess my genes are running strong in that department!  Heartbeat was 150bpm this time.  I had nightmares Sunday that kept waking me up with fears that our baby had three arms, a two chamber heart instead of four, and veins coming out of the brain (funny...but not so much at 3a.m. waking up in a cold sweat!).  Luckily, we can report that our baby is growing perfectly!!  We cannot wait to see better pictures in a few weeks!  We were so blessed to have such a healthy growing baby...and to find out the gender! :)



Even people that did know about our appointment (our parents, co-workers and a few other family members/friends) have to wait for the big reveal.  We have the coolest gender reveal planned for the first night we are at the beach with my family...complete with props, pictures and I'm sure mass chaos.  Stay tuned!