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Well, it seems that we have a very stubborn child. I should have expected that because Jake and I are both a bit stubborn at time. I couldn’t sleep at all the night before my appointment. I sat awake in bed and listen to Jake sleeping and kept wondering what we have inside of me. It was driving me crazy not knowing. I looked at the clock a million times making sure that it was not later than I thought, but finally the alarm went off and I jumped out of bed! My gut feeling was that we were having a girl, but my brain kept saying boy. These are the thoughts that took over me so that I could not sleep. I was not sure what one was right. I just hoped that our child would be willing to give us a glimpse of what was down there. We headed to the doctor’s appointment and I had asked Jake what he thought it was, but he just kept answering me, “A baby!” The night before he told me that he thought it was probably a girl because it was his destiny to be surrounded by all women. I guess us having 2 girl dogs doesn’t make the situation any easier. The whole way to the doctor’s office I just kept hoped that we would find out. Jake and I were on the elevator up to the office and he said to me, “What is your final guess?” I answered him with, “I think it’s a boy.” He decided to take the opposite because then one of us would have to be correct. As we waited for the doctor I kept saying to Jake that it was painful how low the baby was sitting. It was sitting right in my pelvic bone or so it felt. We got into the room and the baby was squished down against my bladder. This sure did make doing all the measurements a bit more difficult. The baby would not budge one bit either. They were perfectly happy sleeping though pushing on my abdomen and everything. I told Jake that our baby sleeps like I do (in a fetal position), but is dead to the world once it’s sleep time. The doctor asked us what we thought it was, and we told him. He said that as far as he could see that there were no boy parts down there. He could obviously not give us 100% that it was a girl. I then ended up needing to drink about a gallon of water and take laps around the hospital hoping that the baby would move and we could get more measurements. We came back in and the baby still had not budged. I then had to go drink even more water and finally by the third time the baby had moved up and was not sleeping on my bladder any longer. We were able to get all the measurements and the baby looks GREAT! She has all of her parts and is very healthy looking. It even looks like she has a chubby belly. I had the doctor look again to make sure that no boy parts showed up and he said nope still nothing and looks to him like IT’S A GIRL!

Jake and I are thrilled to be having a daughter. Finally knowing makes it feel that much more real. I’m still in a bit of a daze and wondering if it’s really a girl or just getting having a joke played on me.