Today we had a check-up with the doctor and quickly found out we are already dealing with one stubborn child. The doctor was trying to pick up the heartbeat using the portable Fetal Doppler but could not get more than a few beats. Every time she would start to get a beat, the baby would move away and after about 10 minutes of playing hide and seek, we had to switch to the ultrasound machine.
This is what we saw for the majority of the ultrasound. Limbs flailing and moving.
It took about 10 more minutes before the baby sat still enough to get the heartbeat. It was at 142 bpm. The doctor tried to get us a nice profile picture of the baby, however the doctor was no match for the will of this baby. The little one stayed head down, turned away and hands covering what face we might have been able to see. This is what we got:
All this stubbornness makes me nervous to meet this little one. I can hear its first word now...."no." The next visit, scheduled for July 13th, is when we find out the gender of the baby! Justin said if the baby is this stubborn and shy while they are trying to figure out the gender and we get no result or a frustrated ultrasound technician, we will just buy girl stuff. If it's a boy, he can deal with it until he grows out of it. That is his punishment for being defiant. If it's a girl, then it's ok, because she is shy and Daddy is ok with his little girl not showing it off.
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