I had a feeling that our first baby was going to be a girl for years. I remember the first week we were married, I had a dream about playing with a little baby girl on a white bed spread. The dream was so life like that when I woke up, I honestly wondered where my baby was. Then, of course, when reality hit, I started panicking because we had been married for a week and my husband was in a different state for an internship. I was not baby hungry at all, but it created this picture in my head of what I did want someday. That picture always included our first child being a girl. I’ve been over the moon ecstatic finding out that we are in fact having a girl!
Throughout my whole pregnancy, I’ve tried to keep it together about finding out gender. I tried to be objective and just think “I just want a healthy baby.” I had no idea you could find out gender through a blood test now, but now I do!
We were supposed to find out around 9 weeks, but we had a lot of drama getting my blood samples. I go to the endo every 1-3 months to get blood samples and so I know that I have hard to find veins that are deep, thin, and curvy. I also don’t have very many good veins that are a good stick; however, a good tech can always get me within 5 minutes and usually within the first try. The lady sticking me at my OBGYN’s office stuck me over 5 times without any blood sample and it cumulatively took over a hour over two visits; she was telling me I would come back for a third visit and then I just asked for her supervisor. Within a minute, her supervisor had my sample and less than 10 days later, I had a message in my inbox…. .
We were planning on doing a short video and handing our results off to a friend so we could both be surprised. After staring at my inbox message for a minute, I decided to just secretly peek and then act surprised when Devin found out. I rationalized it by telling myself that I had been vomiting a lot that day so I deserved a little bit of happiness 🤣. I quickly ruined my secret because when I saw the results, I started laughing because I was happy. Devin asked me what was up and I told him I found out gender, but if he wanted to find out, he’d have to come to the kitchen too haha.
Humorously enough though, we then went to a fourth of July party, and I told Devin that now I will be really sad if I don’t have a little boy at some point too. I kind of have hated being pregnant thus far, but I think this is how people get trapped into having more than one pregnancy. I’ve been eye rolling at myself big time because this whole pregnancy I’ve joked with Devin “one and done.”
Yesterday, we celebrated by going to three clothing stores at an outlet to find an outfit to show family as an announcement. After a hour, we just went to Walmart, because we realized people spend more money on their kid’s clothing than we do on anything we own 🤣. It was great to tell family and share the excitement with them. It has been surreal to have our first baby item in our house- this pink onesie!
It is definitely becoming more real that in December, we’re going to be having a girl to bring home!