Not Your Average Draudt: It's A Boy!!!!

Yesterday (5/24) we had our ultrasound appointment to find out what gender our baby is.

He was being very stubborn and did not want to show us his pee pee. He had his legs crossed for most of the appointment in a yoga pose.

His heart looks good and his head and he doesn't have a cleft lip or club legs or whatever they're called and his spine looks good and everything looks good. We saw him drinking the amniotic fluid and he stuck his tongue out it was cute. We even got a picture of him sucking his thumb. The ultrasound tech did most of what she needed to do and then she had me go to the restroom because my bladder was squishing the baby.

After I got back from the bathroom baby boy stretched out his legs and we were able to see his ween. She even gave us a picture that says Daddy's boy and put a cursor on the picture pointing to his manhood. :) We are so excited for our little boy. I must say its wonderful to call the baby him instead of it.

There was one little concern the Doctor had. Baby boy has some fluid built up on his kidney's. The tech said this is more common in little boys then in little girls and she would have been more worried had he been a she. He did empty his bladder during the ultrasound so its a good sign and we know that his kidney's are working. I will have another ultrasound in 4 weeks to check on his kidney's and hopefully the fluid issue will be resolved and if not then the doctor will have us meet with a bunch of other doctors to make a plan. I really wouldn't have worried but the fact that the tech and the doctor kept telling me not to worry it made me worry just a little bit.

I forgot to mention that Baby Boy looks like he has big luscious lips. I can't wait to kiss them and his beautiful face :) I know we don't know what he looks like yet but I'm sure he'll be super handsome.

My favorite part of the ultrasound was when he moved his head and as we were watching him move his head I could feel him move. It was amazing being able to see and feel the baby move all at the same time. I've been feeling the baby move for a while but it's such subtle movements and different then I expected so I'm not sure how long I've been feeling him move. I can't wait until he gets a little bit stronger. I want Chris to be able to feel our little boy. He thought he felt it once but most of the time he can't feel the baby move.

Baby boy is measuring a week ahead and is about a pound. So we're still looking at the first-ish week in October.

Both sets of Grandparents are so excited. Boys will definitely be a new adventure for us (for Grandma Debbie too). I'm going to have to figure out how to change diapers without getting peed on. I can't stop telling everyone how excited I am and I know Chris is excited. He told me yesterday that he was secretly wanting a boy. It's so hard to be patient so in the meantime we'll just pray that Baby Boy keeps growing stronger and is healthy.