November 1 marked not only my 3rd doctor’s visit, but also my 3rd ultrasound.   I was only 13 weeks, 2 days pregnant at the time so we were thinking it was a little unusual to be on the 3rd already.   You see though, during my first appointment the doctors had noticed what could have been a slight cyst on the baby’s cord so they were keeping an eye on me.

Unfortunately they didn’t tell ME this until the last week of October. (Boy was I hoppin’ MAD!)

Fortunately it turned out to be nothing and everything looked all hunky dory again.

…but anyway…

The exciting news during this sonogram was that the baby showed himself pretty darn good!  The sonogram lady was quite astonished and was like “Uh…hey..do you wanna know what it is?”.  

 Of course!!  (Kevin and I had already agreed that if they could tell this early we both wanted to know, even if it meant him not being there for it)

She said with quite certainty that, yet indeedy, our little baby was a boy.  

We were so excited!  We both wanted a boy first… because of many reasons - a boy will protect and watch over his younger siblings, a “big brother” is always great to have, I’ve always wanted an older brother, Kevin did have an older brother, etc, etc.   I hate to admit though that I was a little taken aback at first, because I really don’t know what to do with a little boy…I’ve only been around little girls….and I would love to have a little girl…but once the shock wore off, I warmed back up to the idea.

The best part (or so I thought) was that we got it all on video tape so I could show Kevin.  Mom and I arrived home with our tape around noon that day.   In my mind I had worked out this big scene where I would fix a nice cozy candlelit dinner and pop in a “movie” to watch and surprise Kevin by showing him his son.   I even pretended to him on the phone that they couldn’t tell what the baby was yet.  “It’s usually too early to tell at only 13 weeks!” I had told him.

Well, in my enthusiasm, mom and I decided to watch the video and show it to dad before I went home for the afternoon. 

And what to my wondering eyes didst appear?

NOTHING.

The screen was completely blank!!  I felt like crying.  After talking with the OBGYN’s office, we determined it was a malfunction in their own recording machine and they offered to bring me in the following Monday for a reshoot.   I accepted, but still, the damage was already done.  So much for my movie with Kevin that night. :(    I gave up and just called Kevin immediately and gave him the big news (I was bursting at the seams to tell him anyway).   When I went back the following Monday, the same thing happened again - the machine simply would not record my ultrasound.  They promised me they’d call me in when they got it fixed.   That was over 2 months ago.

To this day, Kevin has yet to see a moving ultrasound of our son or hear his heartbeat.

Tagged: Appointment, Candlelit Dinner, Doctors, Dr's Visits, Exciting News, Little Baby, Mom, pregnancy, prenatal care, Shock, Sonogram, Ultrasound, Video Tape

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