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Boy or Girl?!?

in Uncategorized on May 15, 2014

Yesterday we had our 20 week anatomy and gender scan for Baby Spach #2. I was dying with anticipation as we sat in the waiting room: nervous to make sure that the baby was healthy, anxious to talk with the doctor and of course excited to find out what we were having. Boy or girl, either way we were just feeling so blessed with the opportunity to be having this child, and praying everything looked good on the scan.

After having my cervix checked via internal ultrasound (always awesome), she poured the warm jell on my tummy and immediately went in for the crotch shot. “Your having another baby girl!” Right away it was so obvious, definitely nothing hanging out in between those legs! Oh, and those legs; those CHUBBY legs! Nora’s were always so scrawny and thin, but this little girl’s are already fat!
For about 40 minutes, the ultrasound tech looked over our baby girl: her heart was perfect, she had all 10 fingers and all 10 toes, her organs all looked great and she was moving all over the place. The entire time I just laid there in complete awe… What a miracle and true blessing it is to be carrying this little lady. She had one of her feet up by her head for most of the appointment, continually grabbing at and playing with her feet. What a little person she is already!
Then we got the most amazing shots of her sweet fade in 3D!! Insert silent sobs here. We never got to see 3D pictures of Nora, so this was truly a delight for us to see. We looked over her beautiful face, and the past 24 hours I have gazed over the pictures a hundred times…she is perfect, absolutely flawless. And Eric and I both think she looks quite a bit like her big sister, retracting jaw line and all. Here are a few snap shots of our little one. I hope they bring you as much joy as they bring to us.

 
Precious little face of our baby girl!

 

 
One of my favorites; sleeping with her arms behind her head EXACTLY like her big sister does!

 
Big pouty upper lip

 
Foot right up by her head

 
Perfect little profile. Look at that precious nose!!

 
Sweet little feet and toes. And her umbilical cord off to the left. No, I don’t have a snake growing in there, too.

 
This one you can’t see quite as well, but it was maybe my favorite watching it live. She has her tiny little hand wrapped around her foot and was kicking it back and forth. I’m sorry, but that is just amazing!

 
And the last picture for good measure…Nora on the left at 6 weeks old and our new little gal on the right. I think they look similar, so does Eric. I guess we will have to find out in September just how much alike they really are.

After talking with the doctor we found out a few more things. My “official” due date got moved up to the date I have thought it was all along, September 27th. Baby Girl Spach was 11 inches long and 12 ounces, growing right on track according to the doctor. I also have a posterior placenta compared with an anterior one with Nora, so that I probably why I have felt her moving SO MUCH and so early. With my last pregnancy, I had borderline ITP, meaning my platelets and hemoglobin dropped quite a bit as I neared full term. My symptoms started around 7 months with frequent nosebleeds and really bad gum bleeds. Sadly, this has already started this week, so to be on the safe side Dr. Friesen decided to draw some labs to see where things were. We should be finding out those results in a few days, but I am hoping that it is nothing. I would appreciate your prayers as we find those results out.

We are so excited to be adding another little girl to our family! Poor Eric will continue to be outnumbered, but he says that he loves nothing more than having little girls. And our girls are pretty lucky to have such an amazing Daddy. So here’s to a happy and healthy second half of our pregnancy. And here’s to getting out Nora’s baby clothes and everything pink, frilly, animal print and glittery!

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Comments

  1. Carol says

    May 16, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    What a cutie! Congrats on another precious baby girl! Will pray you get good results from your tests!

  2. Kim says

    May 16, 2014 at 2:36 pm

    SO excited for you guys! Hooray to being able to use all your headbands and bows again!!! 🙂 Glad everything looked good!

  3. Vanessa C says

    May 17, 2014 at 9:08 pm

    Just so amazing!!! My scan is still a week and a half away, but at a 12 week ultrasound the baby was just waking up and stretching and all I could think was "she looks exactly like Arden does when she wakes up!!!" They really are such little people already!

    Praying for good test results!

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