Twist & Shout !!

The big appointment was finally here!! I have been so excited for this appt. I mean this was the full anatomy ultrasound!! We have been eagerly waiting to find out what we are gonna have and check out everything. Well, our baby boy is proving to be a little stubborn already (Doug says he gets that from me!). The ultrasound tech was not having much luck getting him to cooperate and show us everything we needed to check out. The baby was really moving around but wasn't in a good position and the ultrasound tech was losing hope. She was really jabbing me the wand trying to make the baby flip, but no success. There was so much jabbing I almost peed on myself!!! I was of course getting concerned and being a pregnant woman with hormones going crazy. started getting emotional, okay I was getting grumpy about it! I asked if there was anything I could do to make the baby move and jokingly shook my booty on the table to see if that might get the baby to roll over. She giggled but told me there really wasn't anything I could do to help the situation. So the ultrasound tech told me to go to the bathroom and relieve myself to see if that would help. The added room might give the baby more room and maybe would flip for us. I left, used the restroom and came back.....still no luck!!! The baby boy was just not wanting to work with his mommy and daddy and show the tech what she needed to see. I again asked if I could do a cartwheel or maybe a dance to help, but she replied the same as before. The tech told us to go back to the waiting room and let the ladies up front know that after we are done with the doctor to check and see if she was with a patient and if not she would allow us to come back to the ultrasound room and try again...the only other option was to make another appt to come back in a few days for the ultrasound. Doug and I did not want to have to do that!!!

I was pretty upset and just kept whining to Doug that I couldn't believe we had been waiting for this day and it just wasn't going like I wanted. Everything was irritating me and I'm pretty sure I was in turn irritating Doug! The doctor came in and checked things out, my blood pressure was a little higher than usual for me, but I think that could be expected with my anxiety getting the best of me from our ultrasound experience. This was the first time we met with this doctor and I was happy that she let me ask a ton of questions and never seemed uninterested. Even though most of what I was concerned is totally normal and expected, she took the time to explain to Doug and I why I was feeling the things I was feeling so I would feel okay about stuff and understand what the heck is going on with my body. I'm telling ya, I feel like I'm a science experiment and everyday it's something new!!!! The doctor checked out the heartbeat (my favorite part) and everything sounded great. So we left the doctor with flying colors and went out to the waiting room to find out if we could have a third chance at getting a good ultrasound of our baby boy.

I really wanted a good shot of the little wiener!!! I know the ultrasound tech said there wasn't anything I could do, but I refused to believe that so I did a twist and shout dance all the way through the hallways and definitely shook my booty making everyone laugh at me but I was gonna do whatever it took to get my baby boy to flip over so we could see his heart...and everything else too!!! Well, I am so pleased to say that my dancing worked !!!! He had totally rolled over and the ultrasound tech was so excited to be able to finally see everything and measure all of his limbs, check out his heart and all other major organs and yes, he showed mommy and daddy his wiener!!! We were SO happy !!! These doctors obviously don't know what kind of a dancer I am and how I can move my butt!!! It worked!!! We were able to get some great pictures to show everyone and even got a great shot that prompted the tech to write Hi Grandma!!! Those made special little additions to Mother's Day cards!!! Doug and I also will get a DVD of the ultrasound that will be ready to be picked up on Tuesday!! I'm very excited to get that and take it every where we go so we can be obnoxious expectant parents and make people watch the DVD. Just kidding!!! I guess I should rap this up, I tend to ramble on with my excitment!! I'm proud to announce that after a nerve wracking beginning, the entire appointment was extremely satisfying and I'm now having a blast shopping for our baby boy!!!!