It's a.....

I am now 16 weeks pregnant! When I was pregnant with Brie I was able to find out she was a girl at 17 weeks, I had a friend who is an ultrasound tech scan me. So it seemed like such a long wait to my 20 week ultrasound (scheduled July 18) to find out with this baby!

On the unit I work on we take care of patients that have hysterectomies (their uterus, and sometimes ovaries removed). So we have OBGYN residents that rotate on our floor to care for these patients. The other day I asked one of these residents if they had time to scan me to check gender. She said she did! So I finished up my shift and after I clocked out met her down on the labor and delivery unit. She grabbed an ultrasound machine, and I laid on a couch in the physician lounge. It was very comical!

When she first started looking she saw the umbilical cord was between the legs, so we weren't sure this was going to work. Baby was moving around tons though (I could feel it, I've been feeling it since 12.5 weeks!!). We just waited until baby moved around enough and we could get a better view. I had originally told her not to say the gender out loud, I wanted her to write it down then Alec and I could open it together. I did call Alec before I went down and made sure he was ok with this.  Well after looking around and waiting for the baby to move into position she was able to see, and got too excited that she said it out loud!  During this time 2 other OBGYN residents walked in as well and she had them take a look as well.  All said the same gender upon looking.

I then had to come up with a fun way to tell Alec!  I ended up just wrapping a box up, inside the box I put the appropriate color confetti with a sign that said the gender.  It was fun watching him open it :)

(I apologize, I have spent so much time trying to flip this picture over and no luck.....you get the idea though)

SURPRISE!!!

Alec and I are the only ones that know what I am having, and we are keeping it that way!  Thought we would try something different with this pregnancy and keep it a secret until the baby is born!  Fun for us and suspenseful for the rest of you!