Mr. Bee and I had genetic testing done on ourselves (a blood test) very early on in this pregnancy.  The results came back normal, and they told us that we were having a girl.  I had no idea that they could determine the sex so it was a very pleasant surprise since I've always wanted to have a girl first.  I've told everyone that we're having a girl, and have been preparing for a girl for the past two months.

That ob was kinda a quack, so I'm not sure whether to trust those results.  I only went to see her because I couldn't get an appointment with my regular ob until the 8th week of my pregnancy, which is like a million years in pregnancy time.

Today I had a 17 week checkup with my regular ob, and she said that there is no way to determine sex unless I had an amnio.  She did an ultrasound, and although it's a little too early to tell on her low resolution machine, she thinks it's a boy!

I have an anatomy screening in two weeks on a much higher resolution ultrasound machine, at which time we'll find out if it's a boy or girl.

Of course I'll be happy just to have a healthy baby, but you can imagine that this news was quite a shock!  I guess I'll just have to wait patiently to find out for sure.

Did you want a boy or a girl?

 

We accidentally left our backyard door open, and I got devoured by mosquitoes so I woke up and can't go back to sleep!  Evidently pregnant women are deeelicious to mosquitoes.

audreysmommie recently left me a link to this adorable bee themed baby shower.

While I would love to throw a shower as lovely as this one day, I don't want a baby shower of my own because I don't like people to do things for me, I don't want a lot of baby things, and I feel like having a shower is like jinxing everything.  Am I crazy? 

I'm not going to start preparing for the baby at all until the third trimester.  Because I read so many books and did so much online research the first two times around, this time I haven't picked up a single book.  We haven't purchased a single thing.  And we haven't even talked names (well Mr. Bee has shot down the couple of suggestions I had).

Maybe I'll throw my own baby shower.... but no gifts!

I've received a lot of pregnancy advice from moms, and I thought I'd start compiling them because some of them are so funny and interesting.  I recently had dinner with my friend and her mom, and she asked me if I had been craving anything in particular.  I told her that I had been eating a lot of gooksoo (Korean noodles).  She said that I must be having a daughter then because that's what you crave when you're pregnant with a daughter.

My mom had some of her own gems as well.  If only my memory weren't so bad because I already forgot them all.

What are some of the best pieces of mom wisdom you've heard?