Sandy's Surprise -- It's a ...!

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Here's my 18-week picture. On to the ultrasound. We found out it's a ... surprise! It was so confusing! When we first got there, the technician showed us three lines, definitely a labia shot! Well then, at the end, she showed us something between the legs and said, "Wait a minute..." So we have no idea! We're just going to be buying gender neutral things and will be surprised in October, I guess! I'm also measuring ahead, and the baby's new due date is October 18th! We're off to get some baby shopping done now! I'll write more later.

So it's a LONG story about how we finally found that out! Feel free to skip over it!

Firstly, our ultrasound sucked. Our technician was this woman who hated us all because Tim asked at the beginning if he could videotape the screen for our family back home. She flipped out and said, "No! You can't do that! It's hospital policy!" When he asked, very nicely, why he couldn't since we would be given pictures anyway and we just wanted it for our own private reasons she flipped out some more and said, "Well, I don't like people watching! I usually don't even let the dads in here!"

And then she muttered something about getting the manager and ran out. Turns out they couldn't find the manager, but some other lady came in and told us nicely that it was hospital policy and it didn't make sense, but she wasn't high up enough to waive it for us. By this time, I was really wary and tired and my bladder was about to explode, so I just told Tim to let it go. He was pretty mad by this time with people acting so weird. We really should have left, but I wanted to see my baby so badly!

So the lady comes in, and doesn't say a word to us. She dims out the lights and starts the ultrasound. I'm craning my neck because she won't turn the big screen to me when she informs me that she doesn't want to turn the screen towards me because she might hurt her shoulders. She said she'd scan through what she's doing at the end and at that time she would turn the screen, so I said okay, even though I wouldn't get to see the baby live.

She's really quiet as she's clicking through things, so Tim asks questions, like, "What's that?" etc. Then she stops and says, "Would you like to know baby's gender?" And I said yes. So she said, "I think it's a girl." We looked and I saw the three lines, so I said, "Oh! Three lines! Definitely looks like labia!" Then she continues clicking through things, gets a little more chatty but still not too much.

I asked her if everything looked okay, and she says, "That's for the radiologist to say." So I said, "Oh, you can't tell?" And she says, "Yeah, I can, but I'm not a doctor." Thank you, Miss Obvious.I knew they can't officially tell you the results, but all my other techs have said, "Everything looks good, but the doctor will confirm."

Then, at the very end, she says, "Wait a minute..." so I crane my neck to look at the screen again and she says, "There's something between the legs. It looks like a... well, you know... you can see for yourself." And just taps at the screen. The woman would not say penis! So Tim said, "A penis?"

And she just laughed and said, "Yeah. It looks like a boy now." We asked for a picture, and she said, "Well, I don't want to definitively say it's a boy!" I said that's fine, we still want a picture. So she printed two out. It was like she was so afraid of being sued! Anyway, she just turned off the machine after that, handed us our pictures and said, "Have a good day" and walked off! I never did get to see my baby on the screen.

After we got home, I posted on my blog and then burst into tears. I thought I was okay with it, but I told Tim I felt so confused and upset. This was supposed to be an exciting experience for me and it was really horrible. He was so mad, he said he's going down there today to chew the manager out. I asked him not to, because I don't want to cause any trouble in case we need to go there again for anything. But I don't know. Maybe we should.

Anyhow, when I was crying and saying I really wanted to know, and I was so confused, Tim got the gender shots out and started looking on the internet. What we were looking at was not just "something" between the legs, it was definitely a penis and scrotum!

We found several pictures that looked just like ours, and none of them was the cord. I can't believe she wouldn't commit. So my sweet, wonderful husband determined we are indeed having a son!

We've been reading online too, that at first a lot of boys hide their thing and it looks like labia, but on further inspection you can see a penis and scrotum. Anyway, here's a picture of his money shot! Tell me if there's any doubt!

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