Chinese Birth Calendar says...

So, I was talking to a friend at work who has had a baby recently and she asked me If I knew what the gender was. I told her no and then she mentioned that she had fun reading all the different theories out there on how to figure out what sex your baby is going to be. Sounded interesting so I looked up what the Chinese had to say about it and turns out that there is a 83% chance that we will be having a boy! Check it out here! I think it would be fun to look for other old wives tales on how to predetermine the sex and I will post what I find in the coming days!

2nd Doctors Appointment

Yesterday, Fatima and I went to our second doctors visit and got to meet doctor number 2 of a 4 member practice. Fatima is now 12 weeks along and based on that fact and the fact that this is our second visit the appointment was brief. We got to the office and Fatima made her donation in the restroom and then we went into the examination room. The Nurse that saw us back explained briefly what this visit would entail and left us to wait for Doctor Cheng. Once by ourselves I joked that when the doctor uses the Doppler to try and listen to the baby's heart that it would be strong "Lakes have strong hearts" and he would hear it right away! A few minutes passed and the doctor came in and asked us if we had any questions. We had asked so many the first time around that we really didn't have much to ask him during this visit so he went right into checking the baby's heart beat. When he placed the Doppler on Fatima we immediately heard the very loud (chug,chug,chug) heartbeat at a healthy 160 beats per second. Fatima and I had a good laugh about that, which was also amplified! Anyway, overall it was a very good visit (and extremely short)!

On another note, Fatima and I decided not to get a genetic test that might give us some early warning of Down's Syndrome. The doctor explained it to us and also pointed out that we were not at a high level of risk for it but that it would be good to do and that if it was positive they would do some things differently during the pregnancy. I wonder if anyone else has an opinion on this and whether that was a good decision?

By the way, I plan on getting a recording of the heartbeat next visit! I just wish I had remembered to do it this last time, it was so clear and sounded really strong!