Moot Thoughts & Musings

Out of 34 votes, 21 voted for girl and 13 for boy.

pretty sure it's a boy!!

After waiting an hour and a half past my appt time, we finally got in there, and position-wise the baby wasn't quite as cooperative as E had been for the moment of reckoning. He lay on his back, belly-up. We could see his face and got many very cute views of him opening his mouth and swallowing amniotic fluid. And at the end we did the gender check, and it wasn't quite as dead clear as it was for E, but the technician seemed pretty certain and when he pointed things out, I could see it. So it seems to be a boy.

The baby is developing beautifully and seems to be in good health. And measured right on for my due date.

The whole time we were in there, we kept trying to point out on the screen that there's the baby to Ellis. He just kept saying "baby" (beebee) and signing baby over and over and over. So cute! The technician was great and asked for signs to share with Ellis, "baby", "heart", "boy".

Definitely excited for E to have a brother. Though I'll have to modify some of my mental sewing projects. (Girls are just fun to sew for.) I think we're going to name him Marlowe, which we just thought of the other day...we had been pretty set on Frederick before, but Marlowe and Ellis sound so cute together. So unless we have another major epiphany, Marlowe it is. (And keeps up with our tradition of finding names among writers and musicians: Christopher Marlowe, in this case)

Ellis was a major trooper. He did very well, despite being cooped up at the hospital for 3 hours. Afterwards we went over and played with his best girlfriend Maddie, and we all ate dinner together after hanging out at Barnes and Noble, where the kids played with the train table.

i found E a cute book to try to help explain the pregnancy and immanent brotherhood.
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Hello, Baby by Lizzy Rockwell

It has images of Mommy being pregnant, a great page of drawings of the developing fetus in the uterus, the little boy getting to hear the heartbeat with the Doppler (something E does when going to the midwife with me), the boy's stay with grandparents when baby is born, and then basic baby care with pictures of Mom breastfeeding, the baby crying, cleaning the umbilical cord stump, and dressing baby. I thought it was a good age appropriate book. I looked at a few that were great but more scientific than I think would be helpful for him at this point. I think he'll love having a baby brother. :-)