Safe to Buy Blue (or green cus that's the color of his side of the room)

Today Tim and I went for our anatomy scan and fancy birth defect screening. Good news is that everything is perfect. In fact, it is so good that the doctor said she would use our babies anatomy (heart, brain, kidneys, etc.) pictures in a textbook. My numbers are 100% which she said she never sees and joked that I am setting the curve for the whole office because he looks so perfect. Tim laughed and said it reminded him of when he asked my dad for his blessing and my dad's first comment was that when I was born I received a 10 on the apgar score. At the time, Tim didn't even know what an Apgar score was, but now he gets it that a parent is forever proud of their baby and a parent never stops believing their baby is perfect. That's the way it should be. Being a mom of a baby with a birth defect, it just felt so good to hear because I think I will forever blame myself a little for Hannah's struggles as a baby. This doctor seconded the fact that Hannah should have never gone 9 days undiagnosed. She said she likes to give colleagues the benefit of the doubt but that that was a major oversight. Anyway I digress, back to my perfect baby BOY. Yes, it is confirmed. I felt 90% sure it was boy, but finding out so early you just never know. But for anyone still skeptical see photo below. There is no doubting it. More good news, my hematoma is gone! Additionally, the office we went to specializes in baby echos. and when I told her that the daddy had open heart surgery at 29 she jumped right on it. We got a million shots of the mitral valve and looks like the valve takes after mommy because she said heart is 'beautiful.' Heart beat was 160. Baby boy was sleeping the whole time and it was a long ultrasound. They have many different imaging techniques which was interesting. Baby for sure has a normal lip and nose. The hard part to tell is palate, but based on all their measurements of various bones and how far the chin protrudes etc. it looks like palate is intact. They are going to have me come back one more time in four weeks just to verify again. I think they feel bad about what happened to Hannah so they want to be totally confident. So moral of the story, we have a boy and he looks perfect! Boy is still nameless. I promise I am not holding anything back. Tim and I talked about it the whole way to Newport and it only made me more confused. And by the time we arrived our conclusion was he might just be Tim Jr. J/K he won't be, even though I love the name Timothy. One more fun fact, baby weighed in today at 8 oz and growth is completely on tract for 9-1-13.

Baby's profile, mouth open, hand up by mouth


Sorry son, don't be mad at me someday for posting this. This is a shot of legs open (I think you can decipher the rest.)