Baby girl!

We are so excited to be having a baby girl in early September!! I was really hoping it was a girl. 

This pregnancy has been different. It is going so slow, not that I'm in a rush to have the baby here yet but I feel like I'm stuck on the same week and month every time someone asks me how far along I am. This may be because I was counting a week ahead according to the last period and stuff like that but baby is measuring a week behind. I was hoping my due date was August 26th but it's September 3rd. A week is a big difference and I was a little disappointed but she may come in August still if she is like Walter! 

Another thing has been finding a new doctor. I loved my doctor and especially her PA and wish I could fly to Idaho every appointment to still see her. I found a practice here that has 15 doctors and most of them are the top rated doctors in Orange County so I chose one and just trying to get an appointment with the office was a pain!!!! I had to talk to a machine and press 1 a million times to get directed to the right place to leave a voicemail then they would call me back within 2 days!! If I missed their call back I had to go through the process all over again. So annoying! I have seen her twice now and she seems nice but it's just not the same. 

We had our 21 week ultrasound appointment and the baby looked great but... Ugh! I hate the word but!! Anyways, she has a white spot on her heart and the ultrasound tech told us that research done 10 years ago showed that it was linked to Down's syndrome so this is considered a soft marker. She said everything else looked great so we shouldn't worry and our doctor would call me the next week (since she had meetings and surgery the rest of the day(Friday)) to talk to us about it and to schedule a more in depth ultrasound. Well, after I paitently waited till Wednesday and I still hadn't heard from her, I called and she called me on Thursday and I misses her call!!! Ahh! But she left a message reasurring me that this soft marker rarely leads to Down's syndrome if there are no other markers. Thank heavens for the internet because I would have been more of a mess that week if I hadn't gone against my better judgement and researched it which wasn't a bad thing after all. Luckly this seems to be a common soft marker because technology is so good and shows us so much. It's most likely a calcium deposit and will go away and everyone who was told their baby had this marker had perfectly healthy babies. 

We had a second ultrasound and they confirmed that she is a girl!! She looks great!! We don't have anything to worry about that they can see. Everyone says that the research done 10 years ago was done on a small group of women and every doctor hates it because it makes women worry so much at a time they should enjoy but they have to tell us hormonal women so they don't get in trouble.

I'm grateful for prayer and how supportive Michael was during the two weeks of uncertainty. We will love our baby how she comes but those words are scary either way and Michael did a great job calming me down and keeping me grounded. It helped us grow stronger together. This was also an exciting time because we really feel like we are having another baby now! It didn't feel real since we hadn't had a doctors appointment since the first 10 week appointment. Now we have heard her heartbeat and seen her and it's real! We are excited for her to come!