Impatient first-timers!!
So today was the day. We'd spoken about it for a couple of weeks now - we were dying to get some more information about our unborn, we knew the scan was looming so we were thinking about finding out the sex of our child.
Now we understand there are obviously pros and cons to this. By knowing the sex of your child, you can buy suitable clothes, prams and start concentrating on naming, but on the flipside the element of surprise goes. However both myself and firsttimegirl are both the most impatient people in the world - and we both secretly knew that if we could find something additional out to what we already knew, then we were sure as hell going to do it!
To cut a long story short, my grandma is also recovering from an operation at the same hospital so my mum came along with us before we all went on to visit her. Incidentally, it was the first time that all 4 generations of my family had ever been together (if you can count our unborn as the last generation).
The normal procedure ensued. After thirty visits to the loo (Firsttimegirl takes this 'remember to drink plenty of water' advise as her personal mission to drain the local water supply of all consumable fluids) me, my mother and firsttimegirl entered the scan room.
The nurse starting measuring the baby to ensure there were no abnormalities, she then started to show us parts of the anatomy. The scan never fails to amaze me, and havng my mum there only added to the emotion of the occasion.
After about 10 minutes or so, the subject of the sex hadn’t arisen so after the official measuring stuff I asked the nurse whether we could find this out. After an interrogation of, 'are you sures' she placed the sensor to pick up detail from the baby’s bottom half' and then told us that we were having a little boy. Cue eyes filling up.
To be honest, we really didn’t care what it was going to be. And we can’t honestly say we don’t regret finding out. I’m glad my mum came with us which intensified the emotion (she later admitted that she would have been shocked if it was a girl). We then told firstimegirls parents that evening over dinner which allowed us to then spread the word (It also allowed me to have a weekend of celebration!) At least now we can walk straight by the pinks in the 'Next newborn' section!
Now we understand there are obviously pros and cons to this. By knowing the sex of your child, you can buy suitable clothes, prams and start concentrating on naming, but on the flipside the element of surprise goes. However both myself and firsttimegirl are both the most impatient people in the world - and we both secretly knew that if we could find something additional out to what we already knew, then we were sure as hell going to do it!
To cut a long story short, my grandma is also recovering from an operation at the same hospital so my mum came along with us before we all went on to visit her. Incidentally, it was the first time that all 4 generations of my family had ever been together (if you can count our unborn as the last generation).
The normal procedure ensued. After thirty visits to the loo (Firsttimegirl takes this 'remember to drink plenty of water' advise as her personal mission to drain the local water supply of all consumable fluids) me, my mother and firsttimegirl entered the scan room.
The nurse starting measuring the baby to ensure there were no abnormalities, she then started to show us parts of the anatomy. The scan never fails to amaze me, and havng my mum there only added to the emotion of the occasion.
After about 10 minutes or so, the subject of the sex hadn’t arisen so after the official measuring stuff I asked the nurse whether we could find this out. After an interrogation of, 'are you sures' she placed the sensor to pick up detail from the baby’s bottom half' and then told us that we were having a little boy. Cue eyes filling up.
To be honest, we really didn’t care what it was going to be. And we can’t honestly say we don’t regret finding out. I’m glad my mum came with us which intensified the emotion (she later admitted that she would have been shocked if it was a girl). We then told firstimegirls parents that evening over dinner which allowed us to then spread the word (It also allowed me to have a weekend of celebration!) At least now we can walk straight by the pinks in the 'Next newborn' section!
This is one of the clearer ones of the set, you can distinctly make out the facial features of the baby.
posted by firsttimers @ 2:36 AM
1 Comments:
At 12:40 AM,
Mick said…
this is a tricky decision and a very personal choice. We chose not to find out, we had three boys.
Problems can arise though when the future parents find out the sex and then blurt it out to the future grandparents who didn't want to know causing a upset.
Good luck.
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