We found out today that we are having another BOY!!!! We had two doctors tell us they are 85-90% sure it is a boy. We will have confirmation at our 18 week ultrasound but from what I remember from when we found out with James, it looks the same! We are very excited and so happy that everything looked great on the ultrasound and all of the measurements fell into the "normal" range. We met with Dr. McGhee's (the genetic specialist we saw last year) partner, Dr. Yost, and she pointed out all of the major organs, arms, legs, and said everything looks perfect. However she asked me if I was sure of my due date and if I had an early ultrasound at 6-8 weeks because our baby boy measured 15 weeks 2 days and I will only be 14 weeks tomorrow. I assured her that I was absolutely sure that the due date is accurate and we did have an early ultrasound at 8 weeks. I told her that we have big, tall, babies! Dr. McGhee asked the same thing last year with James because he measured over a week bigger than I really was and Dr. McGhee thought my due date should be earlier. But, James' due date was correct and he is just a tall boy!
For the Nuchal Translucency test, Dr. Yost measured the space between the vertebra on our baby boy's neck and it measured 2.1 mm. She said anything below 2.5 is normal. She also pointed out that our baby has a nasal bone and cavity and 70% of babies with down sydrome do NOT have this. Unfortunatley the nurse was not able to take my blood for the blood test which completes the genetic screening because from crown to rump, the baby cannot be over 8.5 cm long and our little one is already 9.5 cm. She did say that Dr. Matthews, my regular doctor, can do a second trimester genetic screening if we would like but as far as she can see, everything looks great and the NT measurement is in the normal range.
The ultrasound picture above is our baby boy's profile! Our next appointment is on August 17th and that will be our last ultrasound for a while!
