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healthy baby!!!  Sorry to disappoint, but we aren't spilling just yet.  I wanted to have a"gender reveal party" that seems to be so popular these days, so we are having a little gathering with the grandparents on Sunday to reveal the news.  I've always been a fan of a little suspense and so is our baby!  While they were taking measurements of the legs and feet baby was being very modest.  It wasn't until the very end of the hour long ultrasound that they went back to see and finally gave us a confident boy or girl answer.  Towards the middle I was getting a bit worried baby was going to keep us waiting!

Overall the appointment went really well.  Baby was moving around like crazy (might have something to do with the cupcake I ate right before the appointment...)  All the measurements checked out normally, and we got to see lots of different parts.  The office we go to just updated their ultrasound machines a few months ago and it's amazing the detail you can see - both lobes of the brain, the heart valves opening and closing, every little bone in the spine, etc.  Apparently baby has a "very nice head shape" & very long fingers.  Mostly the doctor just said we had a boring baby, which is exactly what you want.

In other news - I might have felt my first kick.  Right when the ultrasound started I felt a little pop, like a kernel of popcorn popping.  Might have been something with the ultrasound machine, but it was different than anything I've felt before, aka not a gassy feeling.  I am amazed how much baby is moving without me feeling anything though.  Now I just need to feel it again to confirm!