Switch-A-Roo

Alisha says: I finally had my 2nd trimester ultrasound/anatomy scan done on Tuesday at almost 26 weeks. Usually you have this scan done a little earlier like between 20-22 weeks but because of the move/switching insurance/a miscommunication at ob office it just happened this week. The last ultrasound I had was in Seattle at 12 weeks where it was too early to see the gender in the ultrasound but we did a blood test with my blood that tested for a few genetic disorders and in addition to this information it could also tell you the gender of the baby. The results came back as XY-male. So for the past 14 weeks we have been telling people that we are having a boy, calling the baby a he, and thinking of boy names.

Fast forward to the anatomy scan and after checking out the brain, heart, and other organs and finding everything looking good the ultrasound tech then says that she is confident that this baby is a girl. Say what? That is not what we were expecting to hear as the blood test is supposed to be 99.8% accurate for boys. We are happy to get either a boy or a girl but we were both a little confused. We decided to get a second independent opinion and so on Thursday we had another quick scan done and right away the ultrasound tech said that it looks like a girl. She even did some 3D ultrasound and that made it really easy to see the baby's plumbing and everything looked like a little girl.

After talking to some doctors and doing some research I think I know what happened. So we transferred two embryos through IVF, both embryos did implant but at an appointment I had at 6 1/2 weeks only one them had a heartbeat, it is also called a vanishing twin. I think that I had a male and female embryo transferred and that the male one didn't make it but because both did implant the test picked up a trace amount of Y chromosome and thought that I was having a boy.

It's been a little crazy and I haven't been sure how to feel about it, most importantly we want the baby to be healthy. I've had to almost mourn a little bit for the little boy that I had been imagining and planning for and at the same time I'm excited for our little girl. It has just been a big switch in thinking, not good or bad, just different. We are just thrilled to finally be having a baby!

It's A Girl

In other news last week I had a tooth that began aching. I hoped that it would go away but it got to where I could not use my molars to chew on the right side of my mouth. I got into the dentist on Thursday and found out I had an infection under a tooth that I had already had a root canal/crown on and the root looked cracked so really the only option left was to pull it. So on Friday morning I was back to have the oral surgeon remove it and then the dentist put in a temporary bridge while it heals. I was so sad at the loss of my tooth and afterwards it was really painful. My cheek ached and throbbed and swelled up. It looked like I had my wisdom teeth out and the pain meds you are allowed to take when pregnant don't really do much so I was miserable for a few days. On top of it all Dave and I were scheduled to speak in our sacrament meeting that Sunday. He was so kind and said that I could just give a short talk or that he would take up my portion of time as well as his own but I decided to brave it and gave a shortened version of my talk with my swollen cheek and all.

Wow, I look terrible :)