So my grandmother, my SIL, and Madeleine were right!
Yes, we found out on Thursday, IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!! Steve and Andrew better stick together, because it's going to be even more "pink" than usual around here!
Of course, the most important thing is that she looks perfectly healthy, measured exactly right for my dates, and everything seemed wonderful! And then we very clearly saw her um, female anatomy ;) For those of you who pray, please continue to keep us and our new little girl in your prayers - everything looks great right with the baby now, but there is still a slightly higher risk of problems because of my thyroid issue, even though my levels are perfectly stable at the moment.
I am SOOOOOO excited. Of course I would have been equally excited for a boy, too, for different reasons, but now I just keep picturing another beautiful little girl, pulling out the boxes of adorable little dresses from Teresa and Maddy, going back to my girly-colored diaper bags and slings that I haven't used in years...I can't wait!
I'm thrilled that we found out the baby's gender, but still, knowing makes me even MORE impatient because I feel like I can picture her now and I want to be holding her and snuggling her in a sling and nursing her and basking in those newborn days that I love SO much! And I am still not quite halfway through this pregnancy, so I have 21 weeks to wait until I can do that!
So as for names, which lots of people have asked about, this is the first time we haven't been 100% sure well in advance. Our top two choices right now are Isabelle Marie and Hannah Marie. What do you think? I also like Noelle, but Steve isn't so crazy about it. Maybe if she were going to be born later in December, but he thinks it's strange to have a mid-November baby named Noelle. (And it does look like she'll be arriving one way or another between Nov. 18 and Nov. 25 - the perinatologist out here whom I'm seeing for consults because of my thyroid condition is a lot more conservative in managing pregnancy in women with Graves' Disease than they were back in the Northeast, so he's pushing me to induce between 39 and 40 weeks, for various reasons. I'll be getting a second opinion and doing some research over the next few months before I decide what to do - more on this in another post!)
For now, we're just thanking God for the blessing of another healthy little baby girl!
So who's going to plan a Christmas vacation out here to meet her, hm?! We'll have lovely weather in 60's or so while you all back East are freezing your bottoms off! ;)
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