It's a...

beautiful

baby...

with a sweet little profile...

we're having a....

Baby GIRL!!!

We are thrilled. I was pretty sure it was another girl, and we couldn't be happier!

Everything looked great with the baby, except one thing, which I will explain shortly. She is measuring perfectly. Weight was 12 oz, heart rate was 135. Everything was measuring right at 20 weeks, and I'm 20 weeks exactly. We saw all 4 chambers of the heart, femur, spine, everything looked good. Okay, so onto the only issue. Baby girl has choroid plexus cysts on the choroid plexus part of the brain. Sounds super scary, but apparently is pretty common! Common enough that I wasn't scared at all because our best friends went through this 2 years ago with their perfectly healthy son!

We have to do a couple extra ultrasounds, one soon and one at 30 weeks, but the cysts should go away. And even if they don't, they shouldn't pose a problem for the baby at all. These cysts could be a marker for Trisomy 18, which is why there is any action at all. But since we don't have any other abnormalities, in all likelihood, all is well. I'm totally thinking positive and it looks like our little girl is completely fine!

Now we need to work on a name and dig up all of Lila's baby clothes! So exciting!