Week 19- A First Look at Our Baby

Wow, this has been an amazing week. Ryan and I were able to see baby Bretsch on Monday and it was the most incredible thing. I am thrilled to announce that we are having a boy! We were able to see the baby for the first time since my week 7 ultrasound and wow, what a difference.

Our appointment was set for 3:00 Monday afternoon, but due to a mistake at the doctor's office we almost had to reschedule. My doctor has two offices. I made the ultrasound appointment last week at the office on Bearss for the office on Bruce B Downs. When Ryan and I showed up Monday we were told that the sonogram tech hadn't worked on Monday afternoons at the Bruce B Downs office in months and that this mistake happened all the time. We were told to reschedule for next week. As you can imagine, Ryan and I were very much looking forward to this visit and were very upset, not so much because of the mistake, but because it apparently happened quite often and the doctor's office hadn't bothered to fix it in 4 months! This was a huge day for us!

Ryan told them that he expected them to find a way to keep our appointment. The doctor's office called the sonogram tech and she was able to set up an appointment for us down the road at an imaging center. It turned out that she had a friend that worked there, who also happened to be a friend of ours. She agreed to do the ultrasound for us. So, it actually worked out to our advantage because we were able to have a friend give us our first views of our baby.

We have some incredible pictures of the baby that I will post on here as soon as I can. They are just so cool to look at. It is always amazing to me how the ultrasound tech can tell you exactly what everything is- a leg, the kidneys, etc. It is so amazing to know that this little person is living inside of you. We were able to see him move around- wave his little arms, scratch his head, even stick his tongue out! (Ryan's comment at that was, "Yep, he's a Bretsch!")

Ryan also got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time. He really enjoyed that. Our friend told us that the baby looked great and even weighs 10 ounces. We can't wait to meet our little guy and get to see him up close!