Friday last week I reached the 20 weeks along mark. Today I have my second ultrasound. All last week this little sea monkey has been fidgeting and kicking and squirming all day long. Today it's been sleeping since around 8am after it woke me up. Go figure! It seems that as much as I go by the beat of my own drum, this little sea monkey goes by the beat of it's own as well. Oh what have I created?!?
Despite little sea monkey's slumber right now, I am still hoping today my husband and I get to see what we are having. I used to think I wouldn't find out til after it was born... however my husband is too excited to be a dad to wait it out. So for his sake I will let the technician let us know, and hopefully the prediction is correct!! I don't think I would be too please to find out it's one sex, and then 10 weeks later be told another.
Above everything else though I hope it's overall development is coming along okay. Ten fingers, ten toes, closed spine, heart inside it's chest. Not that there's any family history of complications... but if you're a mother you know what it's like, especially when you have a liking to watch the medical news or TLC. Plus might I add that I started my family this young for a reason, and that reason being healthier pregnancy.
Anyway, back to this ultrasound. Did you know you have to have a full bladder for one of these things? Do you know how hard it is for a pregnant woman to manage that comfortably?! "You must drink 32 ounces of liquid in a half hour the hour before your ultrasound." Gah! That means from now til about 2:15pm today I need to suck down 32 oz of water, drive to the clinic, and then hold it til after 3:15pm. Wonderful!
Either way, I can't wait to see my husband's face when he sees his baby on that screen. That will be the main highlight of my day, if not my week. Well, here's to hoping that baby feels like dancing to a drumbeat and I get that money shot!
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