It's a Girl!!!

It's official! We found out Friday morning that we are going to be having a baby girl in May! We went to the ob/gyn on Friday for our 20 week ultrasound/anatomy scan. They scheduled an hour to look at all of the baby's systems, like the brain, the heart (beating at 141 bpm at the beginning of the exam), and kidneys. They measured the arms and legs and saw how much the baby weighed (11 oz. - right on target for 20 weeks). The best news of the visit was that everything looked great - she is healthy and developing well.

She is also extremely active! (Which was no surprise to her mom, who has been feeling her turn somersaults in there pretty much all the time these days.) She was asleep when we first got there, but after a few pokes of the ultrasound wand, she woke up, gave us a big yawn, stretched her whole body, and started wriggling around like crazy. By the time we got to the end of the ultrasound, she had actually flipped all the way over!

Finally, once all the important stuff had been checked out, the lady asked us if we were ready to find out the gender. The baby actually cooperated for this, and we got several very clear shots. The lady asked us to guess what we saw on the screen. Neither one of us really knew what we were seeing, but Cy was brave enough to guess "boy." (It seemed like the obvious choice since it is a Shealy baby!) But the lady said, "No, it's a little girl" and showed us the girl parts on the screen. We are so excited! We are having tons of fun picking out all kinds of pink stuff for our baby girl. We can't wait until May when we will finally get to meet her!

I am posting a couple of pictures from the ultrasound. I won't embarrass the poor little baby girl by posting her girl parts up here for the world to see. ;) I may also post a tummy picture of mom & baby if I feel brave enough. . .there hasn't been much to see until about a week ago, but a little belly is poking out some now.