Tuesday, May 4, 2010

ultrasound overload and GENDER REVEAL!

Today was our 3D/4D ultrasound -- what an experience! Our little one was fast asleep, as I expected. Earlier this morning I felt lots of movement, so I was pretty sure that Punkin would be asleep by the afternoon.

And yep, we definitely have a stubborn baby. If you recall, our baby would not have anything to do with the Nuchal Translucency screening. We went through the same stubbornness today. But what could be cuter than a little sleeping baby?

But we immediately got sweet peeks at our little one with one arm up near the face the whole time. She said that healthy babies put their hands near their faces to comfort themselves. She also said that our baby had all its parts and was looking right on track!

Now on with the show. Hopefully you can make out our baby in each photo. Our baby has a big head and arms scrunched up near the face in every photo. It's pretty easy to make out.

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See that big, beautiful spine!?
Our baby has its right arm across its face..
you can see the right hand on the right side of the photo.

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Oh look, another photo with an arm in the way!
This kid is not photogenic.
Big problem for the Cox household!!!!!

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Oh look. Now BOTH arms in front of the face!


But don't worry :) Our ultrasound lady was very patient...


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Hopefully you can tell that's our baby's face
and hand left hand by the head, waving at us!


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Our baby's whole body
Little legs crossed!


Oh and of course one more photo of our stubborn baby:

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Totally hiding in my placenta.
But that is a mighty cute neck, isn't it?


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Cute little grin on the face, can you see?

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cute nose!!!!!


Oh my gosh, I almost forgot the most important thing of all - the gender!

After lots of wiggling and jiggling and moving around,
our stubborn baby proves to be a...

GIRL!

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Her three little lines proving that she is ALL GIRL!
(the arrow is pointing to the 3 lines - the lines of the vagina, ahem)


We are totally thrilled and excited! Mark is already talking about "learning how to raise a girl" and talking about all the things she will do. Talks of tennis (oook.. ?) and camping are already in the works. If she proves to be an athletic star, it will not be from my genes, that's for sure!

Our experience with our 3D ultrasound was so great! We intend on going back for another 3D/4D u/s around 31 weeks to get the chubby cheeks and see who she looks like! And now we can officially look at baby girl hats, dresses, and toys. Bring on the baby dolls!!!!



15 comments:

  1. Yay! Congrats Shannon! Ah she's going to be such an adorable little girl! I can't wait until she's born! I'm going to start looking for baby clothes for you guys ahh so excited!

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  2. YEAH!!!! I am Super excited for you now you get to start really shopping and getting those hats you wanted...and you can think of different poses to put her in to take pics of her in...her sleeping will come in handy for those...teehee...congrats to you both you are on your way to becoming great parents!!

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  3. Yay!!! The ultrasound pictures are so amazing! And, I'm so excited that it's *definitely* a girl! So happy for you all! Now you can start buying pink and purple and bows! Baby girl clothes and accessories are so fun!!!

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  4. TOld you she was as girl! lol! I'm so happy everything went great! I'm so happy for you! I bet you are so excited to get your girl clothes and hats. :) I'm So going to get you a dress. It wont be a new born dress, I know you will have a lot of new born clothes, it will probably be 3-6 month dress. :) I love dresses, but I still think mine is boy. lol! So, I've got to get you some girl clothes. :) Congrats! :)

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  5. Aubrey is already making big plans for tea parties and sleep overs and playing house and dress up, lol. congrats!

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  6. YHEA! I am so excited for you guys. She is one lucky little girl. Beware Shannon, she will always be Daddy's girl BUT you now have your best friend for life :)

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  7. Yay! I'm so happy for you guys! She's going to be absolutely beautiful! I can't wait to see pics of her when she is born!
    Congrats!! :)

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  8. So excited for you. Just think of all those nephews that can treat your baby like a princess!

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  9. Yay!!!! Just think of all the fun you're going to have dressing her up! So excited and happy for you! Congrats!

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  10. YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! A girl - had to one-up-me(=
    So excited!!! Guess I better get started buying pink stuff (=

    Bigger Sis

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  11. How exciting!!! Picking out all the cute girl stuff will be a blast!!!

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  12. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! That is so exciting! Love how she tried to hide her face in the ultrasound....sure she'll get out of that real quick once she sees how photogenic she is!!!

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  13. Congratulations to you and Mark. I'm so glad that your baby is healthy. I loved the ultrasound where she waved! That is so precious!

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  14. Those pictures are amazing! But baby girl is really going to have to get over that camera shyness super quickly.

    So glad you were able to have the sex confirmed, congratulations on your daughter!

    Your parents must be thrilled too - first granddaughter!

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