June 26, 2007 - 17 weeks and it's a...

Girl...possibly! The doctor did the scan today and we were thrilled to find out that the baby is currently looking like a girl, but since (s)he wasn't in the best position he would not commit to (him)her being a girl. So, I am going to hold off on buying anything pink until we have our next scan in three weeks and we've decided to be somewhat reserved with our excitement until we know for 100% positive. Aside from that, everything looked pretty good. The baby looked GREAT! (S)he was measuring 17 weeks 2 days, which puts (him)her right on track and the heartbeat was nice and strong. There was one small concern but, it is something the doctor is hoping will correct itself as the pregnancy progresses. When the doctor was doing the scan he noticed that the placenta was quite low, very close to the cervix. This can cause placenta previa, so we are going to be keeping an eye on it to be sure it grows /moves higher on the uterus the further along I get. Again, this is nothing to be concerned about at this time, the doctor just wanted to give us the heads up so that we are aware of the reason we'll have a few more ultrasounds. My blood pressure was great and technically I only gained one pound, although I did gain back the 4 pounds I had lost at the last appointment. Oh well! I'll take a net gain of only one pound at this point! As always, I will post another update when we know for sure that this littl emunchkin is a girl. (I feel like it's a girl, and so do a bunch of other people!)