It's a Good Tired...

[billroper]

daisy_knotwise and I had trouble getting to sleep last night, partly due to it being too hot in the bedroom, partly due to nerves. The alarm clock was set for 4:15 AM, because we needed to get to Wisconsin in time for a 7:30 ultrasound at week 21.

Other than the acute lack of sleep, the news was all good. All systems were go, all parts were present and accounted for and looking good. And the baby decided to keep his or her sex as a secret, with hands and feet correctly placed to make sure that no hints were available.

There will be pictures later.

Meanwhile, we came back to Chicago and I headed into work, where I fixed one bug of my own creation and five others that had been created by others in a furious orgy of exhausted productivity. Obviously, I should debug more often when comatose...

Comments

[jhayman.livejournal.com]

Good news, the best ever. 19 weeks to go. Hugs and tons of love!

[(Anonymous)]

Vunderbar!

- Mama Tara

[drawshad.livejournal.com]

So glad everything is looking healthy and good :) There's usually another ultrasound right before delivery, maybe the little squirt will open his or her legs for you then :)

(I was against finding out the gender, but Peter prevailed. I think the best part was having a pronoun to use. I hated calling the baby "it," but sometimes using the baby this and the baby that was too many words)

[rms-butterfly.livejournal.com]

Whoo-hoo! That's great, that all the baby parts are there and stuff. *hugs* to all of you.

[cary-lee.livejournal.com]

Very happy to hear about good news. Caetlin was all about the secrecy. Having done both I think either way is wonderful.

Can't wait to see pictures.

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

See, that means it's a girl - girls like to preserve their modesty :-) Alright, so it's not a scientific proof, but it's a nice theory, eh? Amy managed to preserve the secret until about a week before we had her. If they tell you in later scans that they won't be able to tell, don't believe them - they *might not* be able to tell but there's no guarantee that they won't (I had one ultrasound woman tell me it was impossible to tell at these late scans and then when I asked her again 2 weeks later it was not a problem, so that boiled down to her not wanting to look the previous time because she wanted to go have her belated lunch).

Cool news!!! How goes the great name debate? Have you begun yet?