Yesterday, November 14th, John and I traveled to Birmingham for an ultrasound! When I was pregnant with Dawson my doctor recommended that we go to UAB for our 2nd trimester ultrasound because they have better equipment there and there are infant/fetal heart specialists. When we went with Dawson I was amazed at the ultrasound. It lasted about half an hour and we were shown EVERYTHING! We saw all the intricate parts of the heart, the brain, the kidneys, everything down to the lens of one of his eyes. So when my doctor recommended we go back to UAB for this baby, we happily agreed. We were equally impressed with everything we were able to see and with how long the ultrasound lasted-meaning we got to look at our baby for a full half hour!!
Most of all though, we were so excited for this ultrasound because we couldn't wait to find out the gender of our little Pea in the Pod! John has said since the beginning of this pregnancy that our pea was a girl, but, I, on the other hand, have said since the beginning that we were having a boy. We had picked out a girl's name and a boy's name, so we would know the name as soon as we were told the gender.
We were so, so excited to find out. We arrived in Birmingham early for our appointment, and the doctor and ultrasound tech were so great they had us in the room and the ultrasound started before my appointment was even scheduled to begin! We told the doctor that we wanted to know the gender and we told her our guesses, immediately after starting the ultrasound she said to John, "uh oh, looks like Mommy guessed correctly!" John was so certain that it was a girl, that it was a huge surprise to him!
We are both SO excited that we're having another boy. I love that Dawson will always have a friend that likes similar things that he can play with. We could not be more thrilled to be adding another boy to our family!
In more serious news from the ultrasound though, our baby looks very healthy, which we are, of course, also thrilled about! During the ultrasound the baby was head down which was different from my ultrasound at this point in pregnancy with Dawson, any position at this point in pregnancy is fine so it doesn't matter, I was just surprised it was different.
We didn't tell anyone the gender until we had driven back home. We wanted Dawson to be the first to know since he's the big brother. We had planned that we would reveal the gender to him by giving him a doll dressed in blue or pink. I thought it would be sweet for him to have a doll to hold and pretend to feed as we start to talk about what our baby will be like when he arrives. So when we got home we pulled out a baby doll dressed in blue, and Dawson ABSOLUTELY loves his baby.
As for the name, I mentioned we had selected a boy and girl name before the ultrasound, so we had had a lot of conversations about names. In all of these conversations Dawson would always chime in and say he wanted to name the baby "Mike the Turtle." I have no idea where this came from. It's not a character in a book or anything. After he started saying it one day, now he tells everyone we're naming the baby Mike the Turtle. Thankfully, now that we know the gender and can begin referring to the baby by his name, maybe Dawson will come around to our name rather than his suggestion.
So what name did we pick out for Dawson's little brother? His name is Carter Wade Zorio. We picked the name Carter, similar to how we picked Dawson-it was a name we both liked! As for the middle name, Dawson's middle name is Andrew after John's middle name. So Carter's middle name is Wade, my maiden name.
I am currently 18 weeks (will be 19 tomorrow), and everything is going great! The baby is obviously growing, and he is VERY, VERY active-I feel kicks and movement ALL the time-that's how it was when I was pregnant with Dawson too.
Okay, time for pictures...
Carter's sweet face.
(I will say the images we got to see were
amazingly clear during the ultrasound, but
the photos they printed were not anywhere
near the same quality as their ultrasound
equipment images.)
In case you don't believe us...
This is the official "it's a boy" picture. :)
Check out Carter's spine!
Dawson LOVES his baby.
We've got a lot of work to do.
This is him burping the baby,
the look on his face is because he's
burping the baby SO hard.
My sweet boy feeding his baby
a bottle.
And this picture shows one of
the boy things he loves to do with
his baby. He crams it in the top of
his recycling truck, pushes it around, and
then stops to give it it's bottle. SO
FUNNY!
And here's the official 18 week photo.
The baby is growing for sure!
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