Ultrasound

Last week (Thursday, April 26th) we had our 20 week ultrasound. We were very excited to see the little one again even though I have been feeling it move for weeks. We took Reagan out of school that day so that she could go with us. This was very exciting for her until we got there and they were running 40 minutes behind on their appointments. Then she thought it was boring and we were never going to get out of there. :-)

When we finally got back there the tech spent about 30 minutes looking over the baby's body. We kept telling Reagan what everything was, but she was most interested in the head because she said it looked like a bowling ball. I drank some tea while we were waiting and the baby was wiggling all over. It's little hands were going crazy and it kept jumping with its legs. Scott liked that because he hasn't gotten to feel it yet even though it moves ALL the time. I think it definitely moves more than Reagan or Grant did. This baby is laying completely across my stomach also, with it's head right behind my belly button.

After that 30 minutes she spent another 30 minutes looking at a heart echo. We have to do this since Grant has a heart defect. They sent a report to my doctor, which we went to right after. The doctor said that they could not see all 4 chambers of the heart on the echo or some of the brain structures. We have to go back for another ultrasound in 4 weeks so that they can get better pictures. Our doctor told us not to worry that these things are very hard to see at 20 weeks. At least we get to see him/her again!

No we didn't find out the sex of the baby and that is why I have to keep calling it "it". Scott wanted to know, but decided to let me have my way since he didn't have a compelling argument as to why we needed to find out. Reagan was disappointed because she wanted to know. Her and Grant are wanting a boy so bad, but I figure once the baby is here boy or girl they are going to be too excited to care.