All About the Gender

6 Week Ultrasound

From day one I was excited to just be carrying such a miracle inside of me, but you would be wrong if you thought I was one of those moms to find out the gender at their delivery. I commend every mom who has the patience to do that, but unfortunately I am not one of them. 

When I was little I always dreamt of having a baby girl of my own one day because I thought it would be so much fun to be able to mommy and me match, and have a girl to spoil. A few months ago that dream became possible. As soon as I came to terms with my pregnancy I was immediately drawn back to my wish for a baby girl and I couldn’t let that go. The more I researched it became apparent to me that most women have boys first which honestly bummed me out. My sister had 3 kids and all boys, my brother ended up with a boy, and my other sister had a boy first, so the dream of having a girl became a little discouraging, but Dad kept my head up by reassuring me we would have a girl and that made me so happy!

16 Weeks Pregnant

Old wives tales! We have all heard of them, and believe me I did every single one myself! Dad and I went over my mood swings, my cravings, the Chinese calendar, where I was carrying, did I have acne or clear skin, whether or not I had morning sickness, if Dad was having sympathy symptoms, what were my pregnancy dreams...?! I'm telling you we did all of them. 

I had morning sickness between weeks 6-9, my acne was the same as it had always been, my mood was all over the place, Dad did have sympathy symptoms and I was having baby gender dreams every night! All of these "wives tales" were pointing towards a boy, even my dreams were telling me we were having a boy. 

My dreams were filled with this little curly dirty blonde haired, blue eyed boy, and oh boy! that had me excited because I find Dad to be super handsome and if I were to have a boy he would need to look like his Dad no doubt! So I started to love this image even though having a girl was still my all time dream come true, and believe it or not Dad also wants a girl! I thought I would have to convince him to be happy about having a girl first because dads always want boys first it seems like, but thankfully I lucked out and found someone who not only was willing to put up with me he was willing to have a little me, too! 

20 Weeks Pregnant

Everyone we talked to would ask us if we had a gender preference, and we would tell them GIRL! Most would say that they thought it was a boy and that they had a deep feeling it would be a boy. Dad and I would look at each other and just reassure each other that either way would be beautiful but we were having a girl we just knew it. 

In the meantime I had to prepare myself for either outcome because I wanted to be happy either way, and not be stuck on just having a girl, so I would search for cute boy names, and look at boy nursery ideas and look through pages and pages of clothes just to get my head in the right space. We had a handful of names picked out but none of them really stuck with us.  So I started to do the same thing for girl stuff. I looked for the perfect name, all the cute nursery decor ideas and the cutest clothes! For some reason shopping for a girl is just so much more fun. 

20 Week Ultrasound

Fast forward a couple weeks because it was finally the day. The gender reveal ultrasound. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law came up to visit for this ultrasound which was so comforting. I was excited to be able to share this with them. The day of the ultrasound all of us [dad, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and myself] went out shopping and exploring the town and I could hardly even think about the gender at this point because I just wanted it to be natural and not stress over if the baby would be a boy or a girl. I just wanted a healthy baby!

2 o'clock hit and it was finally time to head to the hospital to check in for my appointment and believe me my heart was beating out of my chest with anxiousness and excitement. 

We had a new technician do my ultrasound so it took her quite awhile to get all the pre gender reveal photos and actually start to even look for the little one's parts per se. At this point Ii am just holding dads hand and watching his facial expressions go from excitement to scared to happy. He was all over the place. I had my mother on the phone because she wasn't able to be at the appointment unfortunately, and she was excited to find out the gender just like we all were.

Finally the time had come... baby was in the right position and the technician was looking for babies little parts to be able to tell us whether or not we would become parents to a baby boy or a baby girl. My heart is RACING. Shes wiggling the ultrasound around and moving it around to get all different angles of baby's bottom, and she says "It is looking like a girl..." I looked at her with tears in my eyes and said "Oh please don't say that unless you are completely sure, because that's what were really hoping for." She looks at me and says "It's a girl!" 

Dad and I looked at each other with such pure joy, happiness, excitement and so much love. We were happy no matter what, but honestly getting exactly what you want in a world full of situations where you have absolutely no control is one of the greatest gifts and feelings. 

We are parents to a baby girl. 

Her initials will be T.E.A so you may comment all your guesses below as to what we are naming this beautiful girl.