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October 9, 2013

I got my sixth ultrasound Monday at exactly 15 weeks (they do little quick ones each check up since there are two it's hard to determine heartbeats) and my mom was with me.  The screen was smaller than an IPAD and just looked blurry.  My Dr. seemed happy until we slipped and told her we are doing my gender reveal party next weekend the 19th...I'm doing an "elective" ultrasound.

She made me feel somewhat guilty about these not being medical and the FDA not liking them and no studies done on effects of too many ultrasounds.  She tried talking me into waiting till my scheduled anatomy one on Halloween.  No way in H E double hockey sticks could I wait.  With technology at our fingertips and only $55 to KNOW the gender NOW.  I debated it but after discussing it with the husband and friends, I figured it would be fine.  If they were so "dangerous" I don't think Kaiser would do them every time.  When I looked more into it the FDA was more concerned with long ultrasounds to create a video.

Anyways, Darren and I drove to Portland TODAY!  We found "Fetal Photos" and made our way in.  I told the tech that I didn't need a "show" or a long ultrasound but to determine gender and be done.  I had to quickly address the miscarried triplet (the small sack is still in there, as to not confuse/alarm her).  She did the whole thing in like 4 minutes.  She zoomed in on each "between the legs" and said without doubt the sex of each one.  She said she is 99.9% sure just because she isn't allowed to say 100% and that if she were me she go out and buy baby clothes.  The cool thing is her determination was the same as the maternal fetal specialist 2 weeks ago.  They gave me these kind of cheesy certificates of the official gender.  I've heard stories of techs being wrong, but we are 99% too based on the 2 ultrasounds.  On the way home I stopped at H&M and did a little wardrobe purchase to start the collection.

Now the question.  How do I keep my mouth shut for 10 days??