Big News!!!

So today was definitely a very anticipated day to say the least. We were headed to the doctor's office this afternoon to find out if Baby Heine was going to be a boy or a girl. Needless to say we were extremely excited. We have both been dying to find out ever since we knew we were pregnant! The sonographer got a bunch of awesome pictures of our beautiful baby and everything seems to be going well. Just about every measurement you can think of was taken on our little one, and everything is right on schedule.

So it's officially a GIRL! The doctor was very confident in that assessment. :) Here are a couple snap shots that were cool too...

In this one, she's kinda upside-down...you can see her head and spine on the right and her legs pointing left.

This one is a little harder to make out, but you can actually see her little face here. The two dark spots in the middle are her eyes and you can see her right hand just to the side of her head!

It was unbelievable sitting there watching these images on the screen! You can hear the doctor in the video say how contorted she was sitting in there, and at first she wasn't sure we would be able to tell what the sex was. But it didn't take long before she had moved just enough to get a clear shot. :) Like I said, everything seemed to be progressing well. There is one item they want us to look at again though...the umbilical cord it what they called a 2-vessel cord, meaning that it contains 1 artery and 1 vein. Typically the cord will be a 3-vessel one. With a 2-vessel cord, there is a slightly higher risk of other abnormalities. The doctor says that from everything else they saw today there doesn't appear to be anything being affected by this, but we are going to be getting a level 2 ultrasound done next week just to be sure. It sounds like that will be pretty neat actually because they will go really in depth with everything and we will really get to see every aspect of our little girl. We will definitely give an update on mom and baby's status after that takes place. That's all for now!