Congrats Wondercat on having a boy! Very exciting.
We have had a rocky week, with all good news in the end! End result: Amnio all clear and we are having a GIRL, even though we had no intention of finding out.
So here is the saga: The genetic counselor they had us meet with for the amnio last week was right out of school and it was literally her first day. I am just saying that my husband and I are not the first patients you want on your first day after all we have been through, especially because there are some significant things in both of our family histories that we had real questions about. After pushing the genetic counselor, she finally arranged for us to meet with her boss, who heads genetics at UCLA [though when they told me it would be a three week wait when I called to make the appt, I got a little hysterical that there was amniotic fluid sitting in a test tube and I would not go through another amnio becuause of scheduling isssue - and they got me in the next day]. We met with the doctor Friday - she was fabulous and gave us the all clear (or as clear as they can give you) and let us know the amnio results were great! Yea! Huge relief.
So the night before we met with the geneticist doctor, I was going through our medical records that I had picked up from the perinatologist to be sure everything was there and in order. I was in our office at home alone, and my husband was on the golf course. I flipped to the FISH tests and there it was in huge letters - FEMALE. Given that we wanted to be surprised about what we were having, this was not exactly the romantic picture I had in my head. I called my husband - who told me he was not allowed to have a cell phone on the golf course and he had to hang up - again, not exactly how I imagined sharing the news with my husband
When he came home, I told him I knew and he said he wanted us to wait. I said I did too, but I knew and I now refused to have a whole house of yellow - plus I really wanted to share it with him. He finally let me tell him the next night, in the room we are going to use for the nursery. It was sweet. He started gushing "We are having a little girl". I asked him what he would have done if I said it were a boy, and he said he would gush "We are having a little boy."
I was convinced we were having a boy, so I had to refocus my thinking - but the truth is that all we care about is having a healthy baby!
We are going to tell our parents today - seems like a good Father's Day gift!
Happy Fathers Day to all of the dads to be!
Hope everyone is well!
