Gender Question: Boy or Girl?

We are finally down to the one week mark for the BIG gender ultrasound at my high risk OB office.  We go there for the 18 week appointment because my firstborn, Sophia, was born with multiple tiny holes in her heart.  This is a LONG ultrasound and is in 4d so the doctor can look at the heart in detail and do a ton of measurements so I am pretty sure that in 45 minutes the baby will make its sex known to us!

There was never, with any of my pregnancies, any question about whether or not to find out the sex of the baby.  It is like getting a peek half way through the longest 40 weeks ever!  The only way I get through my pregnancies is by charting everything out on a calendar and without this big ultrasound and the super exciting information I think that the calendar stretch would be way too much for me!  I think it would be from the 15 week 2nd Nuchal Translucency Screen all the way to the 28 week diabetes test.  Now, neither of these are exciting but hey – I go by milestones here and these are too far apart.

I am also a huge planner and feel like I have to have a plan for the baby’s room and for the tiny clothes and all that.  This time we already have clothes for both a boy and a girl but because two of the kids will be sharing a room, I need to find out so I know if we need to switch rooms.  Right now Sophia is in a small room under the dormers in front of our house.  If the baby is a girl, she will move into the bigger room that Miles occupies now.  She is very nervous about this.

I am hugely impressed with those of you who waited to find out what you were having. I am even more impressed if any of you refrained for your partner even though you were dying to know.  I might have had to cheat.  I just could not do it!

Any guesses, Internet?  I refrain from guessing because I feel like then I will want one or the other and I don’t want to have ANY chance of not being completely excited.  I really just want healthy.  If I get something in my mind though, I build it all up and then I think I would be all kinds of confused and nervous before the big day.  Ross thinks it is a boy.  Sophia thinks and, according to her is praying, that it is a girl.  All of our boy neighbors think it is a boy and all of the girls think it is a girl.  This seems to be the trend up until age 12 or so, when the kids actually think about it and have a positive opinion of more than just their own sex.  Sophia says she will be excited for a brother but to be honest I don;t think she would believe us at first.

There are pros and cons to either.   Don’t freak out people I mean in a very superficial sense.  For example, a pro for a boy is that we will not have to switch rooms.  A con for a boy is that I will not have another baby to wear the absolutely adorable baby clothes that I saved from Sophie and I am just dying to put on a baby again (I think I am too normal to cross dress a baby boy).  A pro for a boy is that we have a better chance of not paying for 2 weddings.  A con is that I love planning weddings and will be crushed if my son(s) fiancees do not include me.  I have a great chance of being involved if it is my own daughter.  So, you get the point.  I have an actual full list that I do not plan on showing my children until such an age where they will understand I make lists to stay sane and can perhaps even see the humor in the pros and cons.

I would love to know if you found out what you were having or if you plan to!  If your kids share a room, how did you work it out with a baby? Do girl siblings get along better or boys?  I can always add to my lists based on your feedback!

I apologize for my absence.  My personality (crazy lady who becomes easily obsessed with projects) makes it impossible for me to focus on writing when the look of the blog is driving me crazy.  I have had to beat up this part of myself and leave her bloodied in the css coding of this site in order to post this.  I plan on fighting her every day so that I can stay around for you guys!  The site is looking better though isn’t it?  I’ve got a long way to go still!

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