Disappointing News

I was going to title this blog post as “Bad News” but it’s not really BAD. It’s just frustrating. Or disappointing. 🙂 As you can see, I went with disappointing.

So. I had my ULTRASOUND today.

Nice, huh? Couple that with ‘disappointing’ news and I betcha you know what I’m talking about! Yep. No shot of the goods. (See, it’s not BAD news – just disappointing – had to clarify that once more – LOL)

When I made the date for my ultrasound three weeks ago, I really couldn’t believe that we were going to find out the sex. It just seemed really strange! So I hugged the date to myself and didn’t want to post about it, or even tell anyone about it. What if we changed our mind? What if everyone was asking me about it? (Well, they already were but I knew it would be worse if they knew the date!)

So I just kept it to myself. I actually told my Mom the date once but it was offhand. I come to find out that she TOTALLY remembered it this morning when she looked at the calendar. hahahah – Go Mom! I called her to complain this morning and she was like – HOW WAS YOUR DR appt???? I said, how did you know? heehee

Anyway. The appt was 30 min late (10 of those minutes were us cause Google Maps gave me the wrong directions) and of course they tell you to drink gobs of water. Ugh. The lady was super nice and told me to pee a little before. WHEW! So, I was thinking she was nice at first…

I walk in and J & Sam are in there. The bed is totally flat and she is sitting high up with the monitor torward her. She said that she is going to take measurements, then show us the baby, then take pictures. Well fine. So I ask her if the placenta is in front and it IS again! It was last time. I guess that’s ok. She takes FOREVER and Sam is being really crazy but DH is looking at the monitor. I haven’t even SEEN the baby yet! They both say the baby is moving TONS.

Great. Um, show me? I guess if it’s moving though it has a heart beat, right? LOL – I didn’t want to be totally dumb and ask that but that was how I felt!

Anyway. She shows us (ME, I guess since J was looking the whole time) the baby finally. She says here is the spine, here is the crainium and eyesockets. She shows us the heart briefly and then the legs. She laughs and says the legs are straight out like the baby is stretching out. She spends a long time looking and she can’t see anything. Tells me to empty my bladder and come back. Legs were still straight out. Nothing again.

So we didn’t get to find out. The pictures she took are totally… BLAH. I have THREE pictures of the cranium and one of the legs. NO cute profile shot. No hand shot. I’m so disappointed! I don’t even know if it is healthy or not since she won’t tell you ANYTHING. “What’s the heart rate?” “I can’t tell you that, your dr will tell you that.” Oh great.. the dr doesn’t get the papers for three days!

Of course Justin said the baby is healthy… as it was moving all around and has all its parts. But did I see it’s parts??? No. I saw the EYESOCKETS. Sheesh. I mean.. they looked like very nice eye sockets, but still.

So the HILARIOUS part is that we had this BIG suprise all lined up for the Grandma’s!!! J has his evil penchant for surprises. He decided we should suprise the Grandma’s. For my Dad & Cindy up in Oregon, I was going to have flowers and balloons sent. I found some really cool threads on my BabyBoard about surprising people. Using balloons, poems, video, M&Ms… a whole bunch of ideas! The best one that J liked was the M&M idea. Unfortently, we just decided to do this last week and ordering custom M&Ms with blue and pink that say “It’s a Boy” or “It’s a Girl” would take two weeks. So we just decided to use red and blue M&Ms.
I found two boxes at Michael’s, some cream paint, and pink and blue markers. I decorated the boxes up…

Yea, don’t laugh. I can’t draw. Or tie bows. So just pretend it was cute. I actually thought I did an adequete job! You can see in the picture above that the boxes are filled with M&Ms.
I put 36 red M&Ms and 36 blue M&Ms. It seems like a lot when I was counting them but the box was only half filled. I just added up all the ones in the bag anyway. They were going to be lucky we didn’t put more! I did purchase another bag that I didn’t open! I had a few saved off to the side that we would later add to the box to determine the gender. I decided instead of putting just ONE more M&M of the right color, I would put two. So if they miscounted by one in their excitement, they would still have a chance to get it right. 🙂

I had to look up the signs for boy and girl too. I wanted to be sure. 🙂 Found some ribbon that says “Thank Heaven for little girls!” and likewise for boys. Tied it around the box.
After our ultrasound I went and got some generic balloons. Printed out our little riddle…

And… it’s all sitting in my car. Ok, now it’s in the house.

Ok, funny too. The little thing above has exactly 90 pink stars and 90 blue stars. I could have added a few of the right color to that as well for people to count up. Hee..

Oh well. Maybe I can get the Dr to give us another ultrasound. Or maybe Fee will feel sorry for me, or want to check on the baby herself when I start under her care. Probably not though!

We shall see.

I think it’s a girl. That’s my guess. And if it is a girl, I hope she is born on April 1st so her birthstone will be a diamond! ha!