Good morning 5 AM on a Saturday. How not-so-nice to see you. If you would let me fall back asleep sometime soon I would greatly appreciate that. In the mean time, I figured I would write up a little entry to document my Level II ultrasound that I had last Wednesday.

So my doctor’s appointment was at 1:40 PM with a high risk doctor. I think they’re called perinatal doctors? I don’t know. It’s 5 AM, remember? The reason I am going to see a high risk doc is because I have gestational diabetes. Actually, since they caught it so early, my OBGYN is saying that I have Type 2 diabetes now. Whatevz. Anyway, back to the doctor’s office. On the paperwork they mailed me in advance it said specifically to not be more than 5 minutes early to your appointment. I thought that was kind of weird, a doctor’s office telling you to NOT come in early. Anyway, so I showed up at 1:30. Which I realize that is 10 minutes early but I took my chances and walked into the office early.

We got called back to our room at 2:35. Yes, a whole hour and five minutes later. The good news is that as soon as we got into our room, the nurse started the ultrasound immediately. I wanna say she did an ultrasound for a good 30-45 minutes. We got to see so many different angles of the baby and it was soooo wonderful to be there. At one point about half-way through I couldn’t take it anymore and I asked her if the baby was in a bad position to find out the sex and she said no that we should be able to find out. Right then and there I got giddy with excitement and also had this strong urge to punch my OBGYN in the face, AGAIN.

So she did the ultrasound and we got to watch on a big (maybe 42″?) flat screen monitor on the wall. It was really great! She first said she thought it was a girl but the legs were crossed. Then she did get another view and still we saw no boy parts at all and I knew right then and there that everyone has been right and in fact it IS a girl! She left the room to get the doctor but came back shortly and said she wanted to do a vaginal ultrasound to measure my cervix and make sure its not opening or anything. So I got even FURTHER undressed (ugh, I hate that part!) and she came back in and violated me in yet another way. All was good so she left and the doctor came in and he did more ultrasound and checked things like fluid in the brain (yes there is, so no Spina Bifida!) and the lips (No cleft lip) and said everything appears to be great. He checked my blood sugars and said my fasting numbers ARE a little elevated but at this point they all look great and I seem to be doing just fine. They’ll see me back again at around 28 weeks for a follow up ultrasound.

We didn’t get to see the baby in 3D very much. However, I’m kind of glad. The one picture we did get in 3D is a little on the creepy side LOL I’m sorry but seriously, it looks VERY alien/witch-ish. The baby is still so small, they estimated she is about 8oz right now. There is no fat on her at all so she isn’t looking all cute and baby like in the 3D ultrasound. However, on the regular ultrasound she looks ADORABLE and I want to cover her in kisses and hold her in my arms so bad. But don’t worry, I realize the importance of letting her bake a little longer so I’ll hold out until it’s time :)

Gene and I went to Babies R Us where I got a girly outfit, a pink blanket and some pink socks. All very adorable stuff. Most of the stuff I have is 0-3 months because there is no way me for me to know if I’m going to have a small 6lb baby or a large 9lb baby. Am I going to deliver early, on time or late? There is NO way to know these things (which by the way, is driving the PLANNER in me crazy)! I think closer to the due date we will buy a going home outfit in newborn size and also 0-3 months size… That way we will have time to return one or the other within’ the return policy limits.

After all of that, we ended up driving back into the city to the UPS Customer Service center to pick up the Macbook. UPS had been trying to deliver it for a few days but we were never home to accept the package and sign for it. So that night I was all giddy.. we’re having a girl and I got a new Macbook! I knew something had to go wrong and of course, it did. Gene noticed Astro had been rubbing the bottom of his chin on the carpet and there was blood all over the carpet. He must have itched himself crazy or something. So then I cleaned that up and got him cleaned up and went to bed and at 1 AM (an hour after I fell asleep) I woke up to the sound of him standing at the back door, puking. Niiiice. So I got up to clean that up and let him outside. What a fun night that was!

So that’s it, really. We registered at Target already because we had a $20 gift card we could get if we registered by December 20th. I’ve created a registry online at Babies R Us just to bookmark some things that I’d love to have but we haven’t actually done a registry in store. I figured we wouldn’t do that at Babies R Us until sometime in February. A lot of the stuff we scanned at Target had “limited quantity” in the store because they were things that would probably be clearanced out in the next few months. I registered for all of the Classic Pooh stuff.. It is soooo adorable :)

This weekend I need to pick up this house, do laundry, buy the last Christmas gift on my list and then get some much needed rest. I’ve had a lot of tension in the right side of my neck, shoulders and back over the last few days and I think it’s just from all the going, going, going that we’ve been doing lately.