Another baby on the way

Yesterday, we had the halfway-through ultrasound, where they measure everything that can possibly be measured (if the baby cooperates) and make their best educated diagnosis on whether you're having a tiny ball of energy that will never ever stop and eat all of your food or...well, actually, all children are like that. If you're having a boy or a girl.

My husband likes to know which child we have, and I lack an opinion, so we find out. With Kathryn, I did enjoy knowing that she was a girl because once we had the ultrasound, we knew her name and somehow using her name before she was born helped with bonding. (Because otherwise her pregnancy just kind of was not fun.) And seeing as I forget that I'm pregnant most of the time, some bonding would be nice. (No kicks yet. Despite a very active baby in every ultrasound.)

We had both names picked and ready for the baby, and I went in, all excited to find out which name was going to attach to this child...

And the baby never opened his/her legs so we could tell.

Oh well. We'll find out eventually.

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So as of today, I am 18 weeks 6 days along with a baby who regularly measures 5 days ahead of the size he/she should be. Between that and Kathryn being born 3 weeks early, I'll be very surprised if this child isn't early too.

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While I typed this post, Kathryn was chewing on her favorite toy/security blanket — my scapular.