We have wanted a little princess or a little tinkerbell to be running around the house, but we received triple confirmation that it is certainly another strom trooper coming. Yes, it’s going to be a boy!

From the very first ultrasound, he has been showing off his little winky. Then the second ultrasound is the same. He just has been flashing himself all over the monitor that we really didn’t have a hard time seeing that he is indeed a boy. But somehow we still needed the 20th-week Fetal Anatomy Check-up to get a confirmation from the doctor himself. Maybe because somehow we are still hoping that the doctor is going to confirm otherwise. There is no mistaking it anymore. For the third time, we saw his little winky! He’s not too shy, may I say.

It was fun to watch the baby’s movements. We actually caught him yawning and covering his face. And he positioned himself such that it was just hard to get a profile picture of him. Oh well, maybe next time.

It was too simplistic of me to assume that the check-up is only about the baby’s gender, because it is not! As a matter of fact, I can tell from talking with my doctor that it is his last concern. They looked at the baby’s heart, brain, kidney, limbs, placenta, and more; made measurements and did a lot of encircling at the baby at the monitor.

The doctor found a few concerns though. If the position of the placenta not going to change as this pregnancy progress, I may have the C-section to deliver this baby. But I am not too concerned about that for now, since according to hubby, he remembers that we had the same concern when I was pregnant with Matthew. But the placenta changed position, that i didn’t have C-section afterall. I am hoping that it will be the same case with this pregnancy.

Another concern is that the doctor found something at the baby that he needs targeted ultrasound to be done for a more detailed picture. To be honest, this was really alarming and discomforting. I needed a few days to settle down my feelings to be able to write this post. But it’s really too early to go into details and to even think about and worry too much. The good news is all my prenatal screening came out normal and more than good. This is the positive news that I am hanging on to right now, and that aside from that one concern, everything else is good and normal with the baby!

I can still feel the baby move, and he’s even moving more vigorously now. And it’s funny that he seems to be following hubby’s schedule. He seems to be kicking more at those time of the day or night when hubby comes around, like mid-morning, and at about the time hubby comes home from work.

And Matthew is always a happy little big-brother. Most of the time, he still does things at command like – I have to ask him to say goodnight to his baby brother, or rub mommy’s belly to say good morning to his baby brother, but he is getting the hang of it. I even think he knows already. I’m sure that as my belly gets even bigger, he will understand even better.

By Charlotte

Born and raised in the Philippines - true Filipino by heart, and now living in Alabama with my family! I am wife to Michael, mother to toddler Matthew Alexander and baby Mark Anthony. I am a giveaway enthusiast, aspiring web designer, an artist and lover of life. Thank you for visiting my site!

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