Week 20 Ultrasound

I was so looking forward to this ultrasound. I am at the halfway point of the pregnancy and I was totally stoked--- mainly so I could find out what in the world I was having. I've had a feeling that it's a boy, but I wanted to know for sure before I go crazy with shopping for the kid. Well, we our little baby is modest, to say the least. His or her legs were closed, and even with a bunch of poking and prodding from technician and myself, the baby still did not open the legs up for us to see. We did get a fun little look at the baby though.

In this picture, she was trying to show up the profile of the baby but he has his hands on his face so we can't see it. So she poked him with the little ultrasound feeler thing and then she got this picture. His hands just totally flew up in the air, so we got to see his little nose, mouth, hands and fingers. I don't know how many fingers he has, (it looks like more than five to me).

I was disappointed that we didn't find out the sex, but I will update everyone on Tuesday of this upcoming week. Rick and I are visiting California, and while we're there we made an appointment at one of those 3D/4D places. I didn't want to wait, because my doctor told me that they wouldn't give me another ultrasound unless there was something wrong with the baby or they got too fuzzy of a picture of something.

It was really nice to see the ultrasound, and to see our little baby wiggling and squirming quite a bit. I started feeling him move around quite a bit about ten days ago. He's always thumping against me. It's the strangest feeling in the world. I am looking forward to finding out the sex of the baby so I can start registering at Babies'r'us and Target (actually I've already registered, but it's been for neutral stuff).