GENDER PREDICTION TESTS

These aren't official tests by any means....  I did two. The chinese gender prediction test where you select your current age and month of conception to determine boy or girl and the cabbage test where you combine your pee (hahahaha!) and water you boiled cabbage in to see what color it turns. Purple = Girl and Pink or Red = Boy. I did the chinese gender test two ways - first with my actual age and conception month and then with my chinese age and conception month (apparently these are different). Both say GIRL.  The cabbage test also gave a GIRL result.  hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... I don't know.. I really thought it would be a boy...now I can't get the ongoing joke of "TWIN GIRLS" out of my head. 

MY FIRST DOCTOR APPOINTMENT

Much to my disappointment I didn't get to see the baby or hear his heartbeat... I am 7 weeks and 3 days today so it's still pretty early but I was really hoping I could at least see him so I had the peace of mind that he was really in there.. :)  Douglas came with me to the appointment which was really nice. The doc started by going over all of our family medical history and explaining what would happen at this appointment. He told us he would do a full exam and then have me do some bloodwork. When I asked about the ultrasound he said the first one is typically done at 10-12 weeks and the next (AND FINAL) one is done at 19 weeks to find out the gender.  I could not believe it was standard to only have TWO ultrasounds over the course of the entire pregnancy!! Here I thought I would get one every visit (so at least once a month).. Since he could tell I wanted one super bad he said he'd see if he could get me in tomorrow. Only down side to that is I wouldn't get one at 10-12 weeks.  He said right now the baby is the size of a peanut and the ultrasound wouldn't be too exciting.  He said at 10-12 weeks it actually looks like a real baby and you can see it move around and everything.  So after thinking about it for awhile I decided it would be best to wait.  So on our way out I scheduled our first ultrasound for July 1st (I will be 10 weeks by then) and our next appointment for July 8th (11 weeks). My hope is to see a healthy growing baby on July 1st!!! 

MY FIRST BABY DREAM

Two days until my first doctor appointment... I came home from work and was beyond exhausted. I had been daydreaming of being at home in my bed all day so the first thing I did was change my clothes and jump under the covers.. it was probably around 6:30pm..  I turned on the TV for some background noise and instantly fell asleep and started to dream. In my dream I woke up and glanced at the TV and saw the words TWINS in big bold letters with an ultrasound picture underneath showing two tiny little babies.  Ahhhh! It freaked me out so bad that it actually woke me up from my dream...