Or is it a baby? My very first grandbaby?!
It’s so tiny (8 weeks and 5 days) that we can’t tell if it’s a boy or a girl, but so far, baby is doing well.
Back in the day when my boys were born, sonograms weren’t done on a routine basis. Back then, they only did them if they suspected something was wrong. Heck, I didn’t even know that you could see the little nugget when it was this tiny! So needless to say, I never saw my babies in pictures before they were born. And their gender was still a mystery until the minute they popped out. The wonders of modern medicine.
I’m mixed on whether I’d have wanted to know the sex of the baby when they were born. On one hand, it’s great to be able to plan ahead, colors, names, etc. But then I did like that element of surprise the minute they were born. I guess it doesn’t matter what I’d have done because my daughter-in-law WANTS TO KNOW! And I do toooooo! I can’t wait to know now. They’ve already got names picked out and everything. So once we know, I’ll be able to refer to the baby by name instead of “it”. (I’ve never liked “it”)
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback“Back in the day…” You mean when we had to pop those babies out walking uphill both ways on our way to till the back 40? I remember those days. Although, I did get sonograms for all my babies….I am SOOOOO much younger than you, after all. For Ben’s ultrasound we even got to watch him pee! I’ll never forget it. There was this tiny penis inside of me (exactly how I got INTO that situation in the first place for God’s sake!!) when all of a sudden there was this little doink-doink-doink of something coming from said penis and the sonographer said happily, “Oh look! He’s peeing!” I hadn’t WANTED TO KNOW whether it was a girl or a boy!! But she blurts out that he was peeing, so then I knew what that little nubby thing was, and the rest is history.
I need beer.
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