Cooperation makes it happen!

Our little babyb decided to cooperate this morning. The verdict: it's a GIRL!!!!!! I am so excited! I think daddy was hoping for a boy, but we are both happy with the news. We better be because that's what she is! The ultrasound tech had no doubts about it. Next Wednesday will be our main anatomy ultrasound where they check to see if everything on the baby looks healthy and see if the measurements are on target. Hopefully we'll get a handful of pics to share, but for now I will show the one they gave us today of her face, again, the hands up by the top of the head. She appeared to be searching for something..... the dr. said, "hmmm, binoculars?"

As for my cervix, the measurements were pretty good again today, actually longer than they have been thus far... 3.5! Then they did the measurement where they push on my tummy to simulate a contraction and it shrank a whole centimeter to 2.5 with funneling to the stitch. Basically he said that just means it needs to be there and it is doing its job. He is still apprehensive about whether the tissue is going to hold or not and that if my cervix were to measure shorter then I could be looking at a really long hospital stay. Oh, joy. But when I look at it from the standpoint that we are doing everything possible to bring this baby into the world safe and healthy, it is more than worth whatever we have to do. We love this baby already!