I had my 36w checkup today. We've been clear throughout the pregnancy that we didn't want to know the gender, but I wasn't 100% sure that the gender wasn't on my chart somewhere. I know that with my firstborn's chart, my OB didn't know his gender until he was born, as the sonographer specifically didn't put it in the report from our ultrasound; this time around we went to a different place for the ultrasounds and they didn't specifically say it wasn't in the chart...
Anyway, the nurse was taking my blood pressure (I nailed that test! A+ for me! Wahoo! I rawk!) and checking the baby's heartbeat. I was chatting with her and I used 'she' to describe the baby a couple of times, such as "She's very active" and "Do you think she's sunny side up?" when she was finding the heartbeat. I just get tired using he/she or "the baby" or "it" all the time so I swap between he and she randomly.
The nurse then said something where she also described the baby as 'she', and then she covered her mouth and said "Oh! I didn't mean to say she! I mean... I don't even know!"
So now I'm wondering. Was that last bit a coverup? Why would she have been so upset at calling the baby she, since I used the pronoun first?
Ahhh, the 9-months-pregnant-brain and the completely useless things it chooses to obsess over!
P.S. Although I know there is no true meaning in my dilation, effacement and station numbers, it is comforting to know that my body is actually making progress. And I choose to believe that these numbers (1.5/50%/-2) and the differential in them from two weeks ago (0/0/-3) mean that I'm going to have an October baby. So maybe I will get to use those (two!) halloween costumes I have in the 0-3 month size and have that photo shoot I've been planning for six months of the two of them.
P.P.S. Except it occurs to me that earlier this evening, I promised Jared that we'd go trick-or-treating later this month, and now I'm worried I won't be able to live up to that commitment.
P.P.P.S. Screw it! Jared will live. Get this baby out!
P.P.P.P.S. Except not for two more weeks, I have some really important things at work to get done first.
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