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Another hard to describe feeling for me. Our second ultrasound. For our first ultrasound, our baby looked a lot like a petri dish with a heartbeat. Don’t get me wrong, it was amazing seeing that there was life inside of my wife’s body through that heartbeat — but this ultrasound was completely different. It was so because it was unexpected. I was expecting a mix between that petri dish blob that we saw and some sort of a human like figure (and I was really excited about that!).
We were completely taken back when we saw a total baby. I couldn’t even speak. The photos that I’ve seen of people’s ultrasounds always look so lifeless — so not real, if that makes sense. The live video of it is so very different. This little thing was running circles in there! We started with the normal ultrasound and that was amazing. We saw its hands and profile — and were just speechless. Then, without knowing it, our doctor switched to the 4D ultrasound. Originally, I had thought that these were creepy. The photos look a bit weird and I’ve heard from so many that it’s just a tad too freaky. I can say that the photos do look a bit weird (as looking at ours, I still think that), but the live video looks MUCH less strange. In fact, it looks real. It was so incredible.
After a couple minutes, our doctor asked if we wanted to know what our baby was. We both almost cut her off before she was able to finish the question :) We TOTALLY want to know what our baby is — and since we were a day shy of 12 weeks and weren’t expecting to find out the sex of our baby for another month or so, we were thrilled. The results were in and they were loud and clear that we’re having a baby boy! I have to be honest, I am just so excited about being a dad that I would love a boy OR a girl. I had basically no preference. Needless to say, the moment she said that we’re having a boy, it became so real to me that we are actually having a flippin’ baby!!!
In my last post, I talked about not feeling attached to our baby yet — and not minding that. I was insanely excited and knew that the attachment would come in time — but for now I’d just enjoy the excitement. Well I’m still letting things progress naturally — not forcing any emotions — but this was my first step in not just knowing I’m going to be a dad, but also feeling like I AM a dad. Just typing that out is insane! There’s a real baby growing inside of Lindsay. No denying that now. I saw him with my own eyes. I saw what his face looks like. I saw his little hands. He was moving around like he was partying down, or something. It’s a real life. It’s a human life.
I still can’t believe this!
Again, this is such a fun, exciting time in our lives — and I can’t express how fun it’s been having so many of you share in our excitement. We appreciate it so much :) I’m going to be a dad. I’m going to have a son. It’s really, really, really, actually, seriously, no joke, totally serious, really happening. I’m just so freaking happy.
Naked, wearing paper, and still hot as hell! :P
Waiting for the doc to come back :)
Ultrasoundgood.
Now all we need to do is pick a boy name! Any good ideas??? Guesses???
Bobby
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