Five Vials later

....and still able to walk about of the lab w/o fainting. hah The disadvantage to your OBGYN forgetting to give you a req for pre-natal bloodwork? It resulted in having it done at the same time I did my NT Scan bloodwork done. Of course out of all the people I could have gotten, I get the stern/serious guy.

After checking both arms and rubbing them both vigorously he announced I have very small veins and he would use a butterfly needle. First time for that. In all the times I've given blood I've never had anyone use it. From the literature on the wall it was not any smaller then a regular needle. Maybe the sign is just there to discourage everyone asking for them?

So up next is my nuchal on Wednesday at 3.15pm. This will be the first u/s that Owen will be going to. I'm a bit anxious. I should not be, but I am. Funny how with my first 2 pregnancies I was assured that nothing was wrong, this time though I'm nervous that something is.

Owen is not all that excited about going. I remember the look on his face when he saw Natasha on the screen for the first time, but he was not as excited when we saw baby #2 at the 12w u/s. I'm not upset that he's not excited about it, there really will not be a lot to see and it is the 3rd time...He is excited for the 19w one, since if baby cooperates we hope to find out the gender. I teased him today while we were outside with Tashi that I was going to ask while it was just me and the tech in the room and then not tell him when he came in. :p

Part of me though is starting to have 2nd thoughts about finding out, I'm sort of leaning towards waiting until I deliver, it was sort of fun last time to find out once I delivered vs knowing the whole time. I guess I'll see how I feel come July/August. I think 18/19 weeks (and I'd rather wait until 19/20 so its really visible) is the end of July and we are going to be camping that weekend, so we'll have to wait until the next weekend, which would work out to around Owen's birthday, so that would be a nice birthday gift, to find out if he's going to have a son or another daughter. He's happy either way but I think he'd like a son.