Off Day
Today is Wednesday and I have the day off. Officially, it is a sick day for me and that's the truth as I have nowhere else to designate my doctor appointed medical appointment today: Our 20 week ultrasound! Of course, the visit itself probably doesn't mean I need to take all the day off, but it is smack in the middle of my day and last time I went in, I waited over 1 1/2 hours before my appointment even began. I just don't want to have the stress of wondering what I'll do just in case I can't make it to my last class of the day.
I was feeling a little pleased with myself as I got dressed: I was able to pull on the jeans I bought in September without any trouble. While I'm definitely getting my belly, this is a testament to the pounds lost before I got pregnant in December and for that I'm thankful. Losing weight after Gus was born was a struggle. It took me some time to just 'get over it'. I decided I'm not going to go into focused weight-loss until we've decided all is done in the kidlet department. In the meantime, my body just isn't my own, so I'm going to try not to get to worked up over it.
I pulled out my pregnancy clothes last weekend, to see what fits and what doesn't. I'm very glad that I'm pregnant through the same seasons as before (in fact, Kidlet #2 is due 2 weeks after Gus's second birthday), so all my summer stuff will still apply.
And now that I have a boy grabbing at my pants yelling "Mummee!" I should be off. Happy Wednesday, all!
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And, if I did want to find out, I'd have to head down the road a couple of hours to a different clinic. The local hospital techs won't tell us - it's not an uncommon policy. I don't know why it's in place, but I think part of the reason has to do with what people will then do with that information, i.e. - abort based on gender.
Do bear in mind, I don't know at all that it actually occurs here. But I think it may just help to avoid any sense that it could. After all, they can't make those connections clear.