Well, that’s something we hoped to find out today. We had two appointments, first at the clinic for the follow up meeting of the first trimester screening, and in the afternoon we had an appointment at the obstetrician.

We had to wait a bit at the clinic this time as someone else apparently entered quite late earlier that morning, which made that all other appointments had to shift a bit, it wasn’t so bad though, it was fun in the waitingroom hehe. When it was our turn, they asked me if we wanted to find out today if it would become a boy or a girl (Michelle was not in the vicinity as she first had to empty her blatter), so I told the lady that we indeed wanted to find out, if possible. She said that she would try her best and that she couldn’t guarantee it because of the baby has be in the right position, which seems logical to me

When Michelle arrived, she started with the ultrasound to see if everything was there. We could clearly see the fingers and toes, we’ve seen the stomach, the brains and the heart were perfectly ok, the baby also has normal lips, which is also important, and everything else was also ok. The length of the baby in the ultrasound was about 13 centimeters (about 5.1 inches), but since the legs were kind of folded up, the total length would be around 18 centimeters (about 7 inches) according to them, which is a normal size for a baby of 17 weeks old.

After that she tried to find out if she could find the gender but she didn’t seem to have much luck in the beginning, the baby was laying in a bit of a odd way which made it quite hard to find the gender at once. I think the baby turned a bit later as she could tell us that it would become .. well, look for yourself on the picture if you can see it:

Yeah right, it’s written on the picture.. haha, the woman who did the echo wrote that down. Oh well, it doesn’t matter, but yeah, it will most likely become a girl.

Most likely?

Yepz, they can’t be completely sure, with a girl there is always a (small) chance that the gender is a bit hidden behind a leg or the umbillical cord or something.. the chance is pretty small but it is there. The doctor, who also looked (they did some sort of double check) told us that. He also came to the conclusion that it has to be a girl but that you can only be sure “the moment you can look into the diaper”, as he said it in his words.

I think he is right about that but I think I just assume that it will become a girl

Some people asked me today if I was ok with a girl and if I didn’t rather had a boy (mostly because I am ‘the last’ of our family) and, actually, I don’t care if it is a boy or a girl, as long as it is healthy, I am just as happy with a girl as I would have been with a boy!

Of course I would like to get a boy some day who can take over this ‘heavy job’ (haha, I am exaggerating, of course) of being the last of the family.. well, not really the last of our family, but the last one with the male gender who carrys the name Joosten in our branch of the Joosten tree (which started in 1854), none of my dad’s brothers, or sisters, has male grandchildren with the name Joosten and, as far as I know, my greatgrandfather only brought one boy to this world (I have been working for a bit on my family’s genealogy lately, I’ll tell you about that later in a different post).

But oh well, like I said before, I don’t really care what it will be in the end, as long as it is healthy, that is the most important thing to me!

The people at the clinic gave us another CD-rom with some pictures and some short movies on it, I have made a short compilation of it, you can see it here:

After this appointment, we had another appointment at the obstetrician, we didn’t get an ultrasound there, probably because we did it earlier today. The obstetrician listened to the heart, they took some urine from Michelle, she told us about the results of the blood tests which they took last time (everything was perfectly ok, there was no problem at all) and they asked a few short questions, and that basically everything.

If I have to believe what the obstetrician told us, then it will be like this for now. Michelle has another appointment in 4 weeks but they will only take some urine to check, take Michelle’s weight, bloodpressure ask some questions and that’s about it.

I can tell you that it is a bit disappointing to know that we wont get any extra ultrasounds for now… we probably wont be able to wait until the baby is born and most likely go out and get a few ultrasounds ourselves, we would have a hard time without our little one (yeah, I can hardly say peanut now as she doesn’t exactly look like one anymore)

Tags: Family, Marriage, Medical, Pregnancy

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