boy oh boy

presenting...

at 19 weeks
27th November during the 18-20 week morphology scan

yup, we saw all 6mm of its penis (eric and i immediately assured each other that it's still going to grow...right? :-P).

we had our 18-20 week morphology scan this morning for almost three hours! had to walk around twice and even eat brunch in the middle before they were able to complete the scan since he wasn't in the best position and kept on rolling (sabi ni eric bata pa lang naughty and makulit na! the sonographer was hoping that eating would raise my blood sugar level and have an effect on the baby...it worked!). they checked everything, every organ and bone in his body. it was good to know that everything was where and how it should be. we were very particular about his heart given that he is at more risk with my history (i'm actually due for a fetal cardio scan in the next couple of months just to check his heart). we got the dvd of the scans (i had to lie down through three rounds of it!) and a cd with still pictures of our little boy which we'll be bringing with us to our trip in manila to show our families (a little less than three weeks to go!).

we really didn't have any feeling of what the gender of our baby will be but almost everyone was saying that it was going to be a girl so we were kinda expecting it i guess. my mama was so sure it's going to be a girl even as early as the time i told her we were pregnant! she even bought all these baby girl's dresses from the us! my officemate did the wedding pendulum on my belly and it predicted a girl. there were only three people who said it's going to be a boy plus according to the chinese calendar, we were going to have a boy. my mama was so funny when i told her about her grandson this morning. she was still in denial and warning me about all these stuff about boys. i don't know why my mom can still be so into girls given she has five daughters already (and a son)!

it hasn't completely sunk in just yet that we're going to have a little boy...but at least we've narrowed down the color topping of our bug since pink is already out!