Its a Girl

For those of you who read Mrs. X’s blog, this will not come as any surprise, but we are expecting a baby. It’s due on May 5 and, of course, we’ve been bombarded with jokes telling us to name it something like Margarita or Tequila.

Anyway, we had the ultrasound yesterday and we found out that we are going to have a girl. Mrs. X and I are quite excited by this as it almost everyone around us. Both of us had feeling that we were going to have a girl and there has been a lot of anticipation from other relatives about it being a girl as well. Of course, we would have been very happy if it was a boy, but it was cool to have that gut feeling validated.

The ultrasound was quite neat. We got almost the whole thing on tape and a couple of times you can see the baby squirming and kicking. She’s not quite big enough to feel just yet. Mrs. X has said that she thought she felt something a couple of times while lying still, but she’s unsure if it was the baby or just digestion of food or any other bodily movement. Technically we’re at 19 weeks, although I’m guessing the ultrasound will knock us back a week or so to 18 and we should be right on the cusp of Mrs. X being able to really feel the baby. We’ve got a little further to go before I’ll be able to feel anything.

We’ve not fully decided on names just yet. We’ve got the middle name pretty much locked in, but we’re debating on two major selections for first names but I imagine that we’ll be open to other names as well. But we’re going to wait until the baby is born before we announce the name. We’d like everyone to hear the name and immediately associate it with the baby rather than hear the name in the abstract and start thinking, “why did they choose that name?”

We got a couple of still pictures along with the video and I might play with it to see if I can get one of them scanned in to the computer. If it looks okay, I’ll see if I can post it.