An ultrasound this morning confirmed what we already suspected... baby Hennessey is going to be a little girl, and we've decided to name her Maya Sophie. Not sure why we suspected girl, parent's intuition? But we both were thinking that way, and today we got the money shot. She was all curled up, a little camera shy and kept putting her hands up to cover her face, sticking her hands in her mouth and yawning. She sat modestly crossed legged until the technician made her role around so we could see the goods. There were a lot of measurements to take today, so she did some more of those (kidneys, blood flow in and out of the heart, 4 heart chambers, length of bones in arms and legs, spine, cranial shots, etc...) and then checked her gender from a different angle that was a little clearer. Pretty cool to see the heart working double time and watch as blood flowed from one chamber to another, heartbeat was 143 and strong and she weighs about 12 ounces.
I've just started to feel her move in the last week or so, sporadic little kicks and punches. Makes the whole thing feel very real now... We took a video of the ultrasound that requires some editing because it's long but we'll post it to the blog this weekend.
Ok, time to shop!
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