Avery Grace

It's a Girl!!

It's a girl!! Avery Grace Oliver will be here in September!! We had a interesting time trying to find out the sex of this lil one.

We had our genetic appointment on Wednesday of this week at Valley Childrens-interesting to say the least. We went in first for our ultrasound, and the tech did not have the best bedside manner. In the end the good news was everything looks great on the baby. She did an extensive ultrasound and looked at all the organs, brain etc and everything was great. Well the ultrasound was also scheduled to tell us the sex, because that was to determine if we needed to go to our genetic counseling appointment...well the tech in the easiest way to say it refused to check the sex EVEN though it said in the notes to check! I left the room crying because she was so incredibly rude and Bryan left the room extremely mad.

We then went to the genetic counseling appointment because I did not want to be rude. Bless the womens heart- she was thrown into the wolves with us but was very sweet. She felt very bad because she was not able to find any of my brother's records so she really said we were kinda going blind (the head genetic doctor who worked with my brother left the hospital a few years back and took all her records with her). Bless her heart she tried, but without knowing the sex and not knowing any tests that were ran on my brother she could do nothing.

So after leaving our appointment extremely frustrated Bryan called around. We found out from my doctor that my insurance would probably not cover the ultrasound since I just had one. NOW we were really frustrated, if the lady had just done her job then we would not be in this predicament! I did not get to actually get to talk to my doctor but I am seeing her in about another week for my 20 week appointment so I will talk to her then to see what she wants to do....

SO we called this place called Invision which is a 3D/4D ultrasound place. We called them and explained what happened and they said that they do gender checks for not very expensive. They were so incredibly nice on the phone! They told us they would try for at least 45 minutes and if they still could not find out the gender then they would bring us back-they also gave us some suggestions to get the baby moving. We went today and again they were so nice! They are a husband and wife who own the place and are just great people. We went in, since I was just doing a gender check it was only a 2D (that's why it was cheaper) and at first baby did not want to cooperate. So they laid me completely flat and kinda pushed the baby a bit and there she was! They gave us a ton of pictures and then did some 4D pictures because they said they had time. It was so nice! The room was great and they had the ultrasound projected unto the wall so it was huge!! They reassured me multiple times that it was a girl so I feel much better! I would definitely recommend Invision to people as it was a wonderful experience!!

We are so excited to have a little girl on the way!!

17 Weeks

Happy Easter!! So I am feeling much better... not nearly as sick (unless of course I go flying with my boss :)) The tummy is slowly but surely trying to pooch out. Sometimes I have a pretty good belly, others not so much. I am glad that the past few weeks are done as they have been nothing but hell for Bryan and I just getting so much done, unfortunately I do not see us slowly down much very soon. I am just glad that I have a bit more energy!

I am considering going an purchasing maternity pants soon, to most people I do not look any different, but my body has definitely changed! I have one pair of pants that still fits just fine buttoned, but my others I need them undone for comfort. I have been using these belly bands so I did not have to buy pants, but they are starting to annoy me. They roll up all the time, and generally are just kinda of uncomfortable. We will see, I really do not want to buy pants until I need them, but everyone tells me how much for comfortable they are so I dunno....

Hopefully soon we will find out the sex! They tried at my last appointment but the lil booger would not cooperate at all. Every which way the baby could move it would, except of course in the position that they needed. My doctor is referring me out to Valley Children's for a more in depth ultrasound because of my family history, so they said that they should be able to tell what I am having there. So hopefully soon we will know!!