Time to Place Your Bets!

Tomorrow is our big ultrasound, and we do plan on finding out the baby’s gender this time around! I was thinking of offering a prize or something or holding some kind of poll, but in the end I decided to just have everyone guess for the fun of it. With Silje and David, we found out ahead of time, and with Elias we kept him a surprise since we had never done that before and people said it was fun. After doing both, we decided finding out beforehand was more fun for us! We have yet to have a modest child in the womb, so don’t foresee any difficulties in finding out tomorrow!

Anyone want some clues? Hmmm…morning sickness wasn’t so bad this time around. With Silje it was awful, but to be fair I was working a lot of hours on my feet during that time and it was my first pregnancy and I didn’t know any of the “tricks” to keeping food down yet. I’d say as far as morning sickness goes, it very much lines up with my last 2 pregnancies (boys).

I’ve been craving chocolate mostly, but that has dwindled and now it’s fruit of any kind. I’ve had chocolate-ish cravings in the past 3 pregnancies (oreos, cake, etc.) but not just plain bars of chocolate like this time. The only other pregnancy that I’ve wanted fruit this bad and this much all the time was with Silje. It was never a pregnancy craving when I was carrying the boys.

I don’t know if I’m carrying like a girl or boy, but I know I’m carrying different than last time. This baby sits just a bit lower.

I’ve been measuring on the small side, and the heart rate has been in the 170s, 160s, and most recently, the 150s. Some people predict off of that, but really it depends if the baby is active or not when the doctor checks the heart rate.

So *I* think it’s a girl, but you should also know, I have been wrong with guessing my own children’s gender 100% of the time. I have not once been right yet. If you ask Silje, she’ll say “girl” and if you ask David, he’ll say “boy.” Go figure.

So…line up! Make your guesses! Our ultrasound will be tomorrow afternoon and we’ll probably post some results tomorrow evening!