This morning I woke up so excited in anticipation for our "big" ultrasound. I could barely sleep last night thinking about what sex our baby was and hoping and praying that we would be able to tell what it was and Baby M wouldn't be hiding his/her things.
Our appointment was at 10:30. We arrived super early because we both could no longer wait to see what our little one was going to be. We registered and sat there and waited, which felt like forever. Finally the tech came and got us and rode the elevator upstairs to the room. They had me drink tons of water before I went, so I had to pee like no other. I literally thought I was going to pee my pants. When she put the gel on my belly and started moving the wand around we saw immediately saw this thing that was starting to look like a real baby. I say that because I had gotten an ultrasound at in the beginning of pregnancy to confirm the due date. Anyway, she asked if we wanted to know what it was and of course we said yes and she said "It's a boy!" Immediately I said I knew it, I could just tell We were both so ecstatic and felt like nothing could ever take this feeling away.
She went ahead and completed the ultrasound and sent us up to my OB's office to review the results. We seriously waited in the ob's office forever, but that was okay with me because I was too busy texting all of my family and friends to announce that we are having a little boy! When we finally got into the room and saw the doctor, she said that everything looks great, BUT it looks like there is a cyst in the umbilical cord and she wanted to send me to a high risk ob to make sure that it wasn't the bowel outside the belly because if so he would immediately need surgery after he was born and they wanted to have a plan in action. She also said that the tech couldn't get a picture of his face real good, so she wanted to have them take a look at that to check for cleft lip/palate, but she said that more than likely that wouldn't be the case.
We walked out of the office feeling happy and not too worried because she said that it wasn't a big deal at all, it is just a precaution that we had to take. Little did we know that she was completely wrong and what we would hear at the high risk appt would change our lives forever.
