The Big Reveal: Ultrasound Details

For those of you who'd like to know...this is how it all went down.

We got to the doctor's office for our appointment and we were walked back to a very fancy ultrasound room. We've had other ultrasounds, obviously, but only on little dinky machines that get the job done and nothing more. This room had a nice big table for me to lay on, a fancy-do ultrasound machine, and right in front of me was a 50" Samsung flat screen TV that the ultrasound images were sent to. I could just sit back and relax and watch Lil Monty go. Of course, I wasn't relaxed, I was freaking out waiting for the news of whether we were having a girl or a boy and whether everything was going as planned. 

The ultrasound itself took about an hour. The tech was very thorough (this ultrasound is officially known as a "Review of Systems" or ROS ultrasound because they check everything!). She made sure Lil Monty  had 10 fingers and 10 toes and that everything was pointed the right way. She measured his femur length, head and brain size, heart function, spine development, and finally...

The penis! Well, she didn't measure his penis, but we got a good look at Lil Monty's bottom parts. Almost as soon Ryan saw the butt shot, he knew we were having a boy! It took me a second to see what was going and I actually thought I saw girl parts. Then the tech said, "Do you see it? There's his winkie!" And I said "Are you sure? Like 100% sure? Because that's just mean if you aren't..."

Then, the tech switched from the small probe she was using to a fancier looking one and the next thing we knew we had a 4-D shot of Lil Monty! Normally these ultrasounds cost a lot extra (insurance doesn't cover them if done for non-medical reasons) but our lady was awesome and said she just wanted to have some fun with it and was doing it for free. Hooray!

We still-framed this from the video...he's taking a nice yawn here..or something.

He's cute hmm?

After the ultrasound was done, the results were given to the doctor (not who I normally see..and she was kind of stupid..) and then she came in to tell us everything looked normal.  Big relief!

Officially, Lil Monty measured 8 inches, 15 ounces. According to these measurements, he's about 6 days ahead of schedule...our due date could be May 12 based on his size.