Fun day at the doctors!

Today I had 2 doctor appointments. The first was with a doc on my medical team. I got a physical, pap smear and baby heart rate check (167 bpm), went over my previous lab work (all good except low hemoglobin of 11 - so placed on Iron supplements).

The second appointment was with the ultrasound tech. This was wonderful! The baby was just swimming all around, it has 2 legs and 2 arms and a bunch of fingers, a nice spine, a strong heart and a large head. It measures a whopping 5cm long, yet despite being tiny I found it pretty easy to identify the body parts. It helps to know that bones are white on ultrasounds so its easy to see its spine and fingers and skull. It also measures exactly to the day(11 weeks, 6days) keeping my April 29th due date on track. But perhaps the most exciting part, and somewhat unexpected this early, was the tech telling me with 90% certainty that we are having a baby boy! Dan and I are both thrilled to have a boy and tears were shed by both of us on this news. If the 90% proves to be true, his name will be Dexter (still working on a middle name)

Today's scan combined with some lab work, so perhaps in a week or so I will know info about chance for Downs, Cystic Fibrosis, and other fun stuff we hope not to deal with. The scan part measured normal, so just waiting on lab work now.

Next appointment is in 4 weeks, Next ultrasound is in 8 weeks. At the 20week ultrasound they should be even more certain about the baby's sex so until then we will be working on staying healthy!