WE FOUND OUT THE GENDER TODAY!!!

Hello everyone.....well, the LONG AWAITED day has arrived and we found out today that we are having another BOY!!! I must admit I got a little teary-eyed realizing that my dream of having a daughter is going to be just that....a "dream". I have a lot of emotions going through my head right now. I have longed for a daughter for as long as I can remember and thinking back to when I found out Brayden was a boy, I was a "little" disappointed but that quickly changed! I can't even imagine him being anything else besides what and who he is. I love him more than anything in this entire world and I know that it will be the same with this baby. I already love him and worry about him. I am just worried about another boy competing for the place that Brayden has in my heart as far as the mommy/son bond goes. I'm sure all parents that have two of the same sex feel these feelings initially and I know that things all work out in the end.

I am happy to say that everything looks GREAT with the baby and "he" is measuring right on schedule. They didn't see anything abnormal and for that I'm VERY VERY grateful. I started to freak out a bit when the both the doctor and the tech kept focusing on one particular area and saying to each other that they couldn't figure out what was was going on. They ended up having to do "both" types of ultrasounds and finally determined that I have a HUGE cyst on my left ovary (that wasn't there at my 12 weeks scan). Apparently, it's causing my left ovary to be pushed downward into my pelvic cavity. That might explain some of the severe cramping I've been experiencing this week. I have to go back in 5 weeks to have the cyst checked again and for the doctor to take a closer look at the baby's heart since he was in a weird position and they couldn't get a good look at the heart chambers, etc. As far as the cyst goes, they will just keep an eye on it and he said it could rupture, causing a great deal of pain but that it shouldn't cause any problems with the rest of the pregnancy. He is pretty sure that once my uterus moves up higher then there will be room for the ovary to move back up into it's proper position.

I have my regular 20 week appointment with my OB next week, along with ANOTHER ultrasound at the OB's office this time. They like to do their own to compare the results with the one I had done today at the Perinatologist.

So, for all of you that voted "girl" on my poll.....shame on you, you jinxed me. Just kidding!!! Guess I better get started picking out a boy name. I hadn't even looked at boy's names because I really thought this one would be a girl in the beginning, although lately here I started to change my mind.

This kid is so totally set on clothes. I have at least 7 HUGE boxes of boy clothes left over from when Brayden was a little baby, all the way up to his most recent size that he just grew out of.