Piggysnoot

I had another checkup yesterday…I’m 10 weeks along now. The doctor said, “Now there’s a 60% chance we’ll hear the heartbeat…that also means there’s a 40% chance we won’t…so don’t be alarmed if we don’t.” He no sooner finished his sentence, put the monitor on my belly, and we could hear our little one’s heart beating away! It was an incredible experience! At first we weren’t sure if we were hearing it, or if it was the baby’s and not mine, but the doctor said, “Do you hear it?”, and that was all the confirmation we needed! He said we must have a smart one because it was right where it’s needed to be so we could hear it. I told him that’s because I was sending it heartbeat vibes all day hoping that we’d hear it. I think he may have thought that was a little silly, but he simply said, “Well, it’s sending those vibes right back at ya!”

It was really cool to have concrete confirmation, you know?! I was kinda at the point of being like I know I’m pregnant, but I don’t feel or look any different yet…I’d like some real proof. I think Larry thought that was silly…he’s like um, isn’t the doctor saying you’re pregnant enough proof? The heartbeat was 158. According to some old wives tale the heartbeat being that fast means we’re having a girl, but we’re not out painting the nursery pink just yet!

While we’re on the subject of old wives tales and gender predictions, I thought a fun feature of this site would be to include all of the “expert” opinions on what we’re having. For instance, my old babysitter told my mom that since the heartbeat is so fast it’s going to be a girl. This is prediction number one that is based on no kind of scientific evidence. Each time someone gives us their “expert” opinion on what we’re having, you’ll hear about it here. We’ll see who’s right sometime in December…or whenever an ultrasound technician gives us their expert opinion…which we’ll be inclined to believe. Yesterday I did an online quiz that is supposed to be a baby gender predictor. It asked things like: Are you craving sweets or salty stuff? Have you had morning sickness? Well the results of that quiz tell me that we have a 75% chance of having a girl. Then I did one that’s an ancient Chinese gender predictor that’s supposed to be like a million percent accurate. The results of that say we’re having a boy. So far the overall useless predictions tell me that we’re either having a boy or a girl. That’s a relief, let me tell you! That rules out the fact that we’re having a demon, doesn’t it?!

Gender Prediction Totals Thus Far:
2 Votes for Girl, 1 Vote for Boy