First prenatal appointment

Yesterday, the husband and my self had a sorta unplanned prenatal appointment. My midwife had a baby on the day of our appointment, so we had to move it back to whatever date she was feeling up to coming out, and that day just so happened to be yesterday, three days after the birth of her 7th child! So she came over with her new little baby girl, and you forget how tiny they are when they are so new!!

She filled out my chart, and took blood pressure and listened to the baby's heart beat!! That is always a somewhat nerve wracking thing... no matter how many pregnancies i still get worried that they wont find the heart beat... even though i am sick, and my belly is obviously growing bigger... and she didn't find it immediately, so then i try to keep my internal worrier quite, but until you hear that little thump of horse hoofs it is ALL ANXIETY(on the inside at least, i think if i showed worry then the children and husband would get upset also, so i keep it to myself) and of course when she zeroed in on my little lemon sized baby, Murry kicked the Doppler and swam to another hiding spot!! a real confirmed actual kick!  I suddenly felt quite blessed :)

My next appointment will be right before our trip to Louisiana. I also have to schedule an ultrasound to confirm that Murry, will be a Miranda and not a William<--husbands little joke (what is short for William) lets just say we are a big fan of ghost busters haha

I am thinking of having the ultrasound tech write the sex on a slip of paper and keeping it hidden until LA and then having my aunt bake a gender reveal cake, and cutting the cake at Sam Houston Jones whilst my parents are camping out there, maybe having a bit of a barbecue,  think the kids would get a kick out of it!!

My only concern is if the cake is cut and it is blue there will be me a little on the disappointed side and that wont be much fun for anyone :/ Of course a baby boy will still be a blessing because gosh i love the little babies!!! but then if my whole family is there and they are all happy for another bouncing baby boy than i will likely be uplifted by their excitement.

Its such a silly concern but a concern none the less

At least worrying about the baby's gender has somewhat kept my mind off of the possibility of another baby with a birth defect, it is amazing how much a little bit of a defect like a deformed foot can make life immensely more difficult... in fact we will be taking a trip to Philly this coming Monday for just such defect and i am pretty excited about it, we are quite hopeful that it wont be misdiagnosed this time and maybe we will be fitting his feet in a proper pair of shoes in the near future!!