Alyssa's ramblings...

Secrets.

We found out the gender of our baby! But it’s a secret. :o) The baby’s perfectly fine, there’s nothing wrong with him/her. The ultrasound technician was going on about how cute it was, when it was wriggling around and striking lots of different poses. We saw it hiccuping, too! Gorgeous little bub. But like last time, it was a squirmer! It stayed still long enough to determine the sex, though. And the lady said, although ultrasounds are never 100% accurate when it comes to those things, she was 96% certain. From what I saw, I’d say the same thing.

Afterwards, hubby and I went to the shops and bought gender-specific swaddling cloths. :o) We were going to get a cute outfit, but there wasn’t really anything quite cute enough.

Oh, no photos yet. The printer wasn’t working at the time, so she’s going to send them to us.

Sandy, the same thing happened to me! They were running 45 minutes late, and for about the last half hour I had to stand up because I was finding it very hard to hold in. Then with ten minutes to go, one of the ladies called me over and said I could go let a little out. I think it was pretty obvious I was faring pretty badly (although I was trying to be as inconspicuous as possible!). Then the first thing the ultrasound technician said to me when she started looking at my insides was “Oh my goodness, your poor bladder! You must be in so much pain! Go let some out.” She told me to let out 20 seconds worth, which was almost all of it. So that helped a lot. But enough urine talk. :o)

Lately I’ve been feeling some ‘twitches’, like little kicks from the baby. Last night when I was at the prayer meeting, I put my hand on my stomach where the twitches had been moments earlier. A few seconds later, and boom! There was a huge kick! I felt it lift up my hand and everything. It was so awesome! And last night in bed, my husband had his hand on my stomach and felt some of the twitches! He was rapt. I was so excited to be able to let him feel them. Every other time he’s tried, the baby had just stopped.

Today is a good day. :o)

posted by Alyssa @ 10:59 AM