pink or blue?

Yesterday was my first ultrasound. What a cool experience! They put some jelly on your stomach, a little machine, and then you can see a little baby on the screen! The sonographer measured the baby's head and told me that it was measuring big! She then did all the other measurements and confirmed that I was a bit farther along than 18 weeks. My new due date is March 4th!!! Three weeks earlier! I am so excited and feel validated. I have been feeling all along that I was just bigger than I should be and I was feeling kicks and pokes earlier than I should be . . . The best is that instead of being 18 weeks and just short of halfway, I am now 21 weeks and into the second half of this pregnancy!
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It was great - Oh, I suppose you want to know pink or blue? I am happy to say that my work friends were all wrong and the Dalton trend has won out - she's a girl! I didn't realize that I wanted a girl so much until we saw that picture and the sonographer said it was a girl and then I felt this huge relief and excitement and a great big smile and tears all at the same time! I turned and asked Scott what he thought and his only comment was that unfortunately, now that I knew the answer to the color question, he couldn't use that as an excuse to keep me from spending lots of money! He emailed in the afternoon "are you still smiling?" it was very cute.
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Wow, it really does seem more real now that I have seen the baby moving around on the screen and I can feel her kicking and I can say "her"! What a cool thing technology brought us with the invention of the ultrasound!