It's a BOY!

Yep! Boy baby!

I hadn't really thought about taking the kids to the ultrasound, but it ended up not being such a bad decision afterall. Skadi, as it turned out, had the day off school. So she was kind of coming no matter what. I had checked about a few friends to drop her with for the appointment and nearly everyone asked why we didn't just take her?

So then AB suggested that if we took Skadi, we really needed to take Leif. I asked Leif if he wanted to come and of course he did. Which meant some missed school, which made my heart ache a bit since we had just missed 6 days.

So we all had a leisurely morning getting ready and then ran off to see the baby in mommy's tummy!

The tech offered them lollipops right away and asked what it was going to be?

Leif responded, "A boy!" Easily. He was confident.

Skadi changed up her normal response. I think she was trying to be contrary as always - she can't agree with Leif or lend credence to his responses... So she said, "a girl!"

AB was positive it was a girl because the baby's heartrate has been so high consistently. I had been thinking boy since early on, but lately had nearly become convinced in it being a girl given AB's confidence and surety that he would NOT have to repaint Skadi's room once we moved her out.

Right off the bat she sticks the wand on my abdomen and without hesitation pronounces it "A BOY!"

I think AB sat there shell shocked for the remainder of the appointment. Leif immediately saw the opportunity and dove in with "I TOLD YOU SO!"

My quad screen had come back with high odds for Downs. Or at least high enough that it was called a "positive screen for Downs". One in 71 were the odds - which actually don't seem huge to me. So we have a referral to the high risk doctor for a high resolution ultrasound.

We brought our ultrasound tech up to speed with this and she was first surprised, but quickly reassured us that she didn't see anything at all questionable other than a healthy baby. She said there are three big markers for Downs in ultrasound that she can see - club feet, cyst in the brain and abnormal heart. All of those looked good. Proportions of limbs all looked good.

So all in all, a good visit! Good ultrasound!