Bouncing forward and gender confusion

Hi All!

I have definitely been slacking when it comes to blogging lately. Sorry.

If you look to the right, you will notice that my ticker bounced forward by 3 days. Yep, my due date is now September 18th rather than the 21st! Hurray! Although we all know that this means little for when baby actually decides to come. What I do know is that all of my mom's pregnancies were over due, all of Nick's mom's were and my sister's were too...so I am just expecting to go over.

I got the opportunity to go up and have a professor at my best friend Amanda's sonography school scan me for their class to showcase a baby. It was so much fun to see the little bean move and turn and twist. A few things we learned during the scan - baby loves to have hands by it's face, baby loves to cross legs and make gender viewing difficult and finally, that baby looked healthy (although at a scan like this, they would not have told me that baby had issued because it was not under a doctor and was not diagnostic) Amanda also got the opportunity to scan me for a while and we got some amazing photo's of the little guy!

I learned that this ultrasound, after a lot of prodding, that it was a GIRL! 


After telling Nick the result, I gleefully set out to send the mass text to announce the gender. Let's be honest, I really didn't care about the gender, all I wanted was healthy. It took a few days to settle in that we would be having a little girl. After several days, I began looking online at clothes for her and checking out gear. While I knew that it was pretty dumb to buy a pink colored car seat, I fell in love with one and had my mind set on it. 


Back to the clothes - oh the clothes!!! The baby industry is completely one sided toward girls. If you walk into baby gap, 70-80% of all the clothes are for little girls. They are pink, green, yellow, white, every color you can imagine. They come in prints, flowers, plaid, frills! There are very few cheesy sayings...which btw, I don't particularly like, so hurrah! Cute clothes that don't have cheesy sayings all over them! 


For some reason, I didn't buy anything - I still had my 20 week scan on 5/5/11 so I had planned a shopping trip with my mother in law following the appointment. I did purchase a green fleece on sale at REI and I was gifted by my AMAZING girlfriends a Coach diaper bag (oh this bag is BEAUTIFUL!) my first designer bag EVER!


So, 5/5 finally arrived! I went in for my scan. She started at the heart, I love watching that little thing work away, so fast a furious! I told her that we wanted to confirm the gender, that I had a scan last week and it was a girl but she could feel free to confirm. She continued scanning the heart, then said "ok, I just really need to clear up this gender thing" so she went straight for the goods. Once in position I think I said "isn't that..." and she confirmed..."yea, you're having a boy" and my mother in law jumped out of her seat, Nick was speachless and I just kept asking, are you sure? 


So after a week of telling everyone "we're having a girl" and getting used to looking at girl things and making a list of names for girls, I was now having to switch to "we're having a boy" and thinking about boy clothes and boy things and names for boys. Oh BOY!! What a change, an exciting change  but a change none-the-less!


First and most important - our baby boy is HEALTHY!!! Everything looks great and measures great! And second most important is that the gender really doesn't matter. 


But I do have a bone to pick now that I am not in the girl section of stores anymore...


Back to the clothing industry. Hello? In major need of cute boy clothes??? Why is it that they are under the impression that mothers want to adorn their baby boys in cheesy sayings? "Daddy's little monster" and Daddy's tough guy" and "Rock star in training" and on and on and on. Call me crazy, but I really don't like these these!


Then there are the colors. Poo brown onsies with some print of a monster truck. Barf. Grey, yellow, blue and green shirts covered in monster trucks! or trains! or monsters! sigh. It's like if you want to find something cute, you have to search far and wide. 


I went to baby gap and had to work hard to stay in my little corner and not glance at the HUGE girl section which by the way was full of color! The boy section was blue, kaki, and green, seriously devoid of color. Camouflage! Motorcycles! Old man sweaters! double sigh. 


Don't get me wrong, I am SOO excited for my little boy!!! I am so happy he is healthy and so thrilled to be able to have a baby. My beef is with the clothing makers-who seriously need to take another look at who is buying clothes for a 6 month old. I mean, I get it, when they are older, they love all these boy things - cars, trucks, motorcycles, trains - but when they are little, the cuteness of the clothes is for the mom and I am seriously pleading with you designers to realize that baby boys need cuteness too!!! 


In other baby news - at my 11 week scan I was told that my placenta was in the back which meant I could expect to feel baby move early! Hurray! 19 weeks rolled around and other people who were close to me in pregnancy weeks had long ago been feeling baby's kicks and jabs. Still nothing. When I went for the scan at the school, they said my placenta was on the front...hm. That explains things! And the 5/5 scan confirmed this. All that worrying, why can't I feel baby move because I was told the placenta was in the wrong place. Oh well! At this point, I think I feel things every once in a while...but maybe they are just muscle twitches?