Well.....guess who was wrong? Mommy intuition is apparently not 100% because I was certain that we were having a girl but when the sonogram tech put the wand on my stomach the very first image that popped up was our little guy with his legs spread wide. Maybe he had been waiting for his moment to tell his mother to stop calling him "she." :) Oops. We are very excited to meet our little "Bump Bump" in a few months. Owen has been calling him "Bump Bump" because I was talking to Owen about going to hear his brother's heartbeat and I told him that we'd hear it say bump bump, bump bump. Now whenever I say baby brother he says, "Bump Bump!" He totally doesn't understand what's happening but he's excited anyway!
At our ultrasound we also learned that I have placenta previa which means that the placenta implanted lower than it should have. Most of the time, up to 90%, it clears up on its own as the uterus grows and stretches. If it doesn't move away from the cervix, I will have to have a c-section, so we're REALLY hopeful that it will move away! I don't have any symptoms that made me suspect that something was different and I still don't have any feelings that things aren't right, so I was shocked to say the least. The worst part of the whole thing is that I have to limit my lifting, which includes not lifting Owen very often.
We had our 20 week appointment this week as well which marks the halfway point of this pregnancy. His heartbeat has started slowing down a bit and was at 141 this appointment, which is perfect! We made our appointment to have our next ultrasound on February 9th to see if my placenta previa has cleared itself. We're hopeful that it will have moved up by then!
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