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Aug. 29th, 2011 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ste_noniIt seems I'm having a boy. I'm very excited about that because I had this sort of dream a few weeks ago where, when I woke up, I just knew it was a boy and I was supposed to name him Samuel. It probably doesn't hurt that I've been watching a lot of SPN, or that Samuel also works well in Spanish, but when I woke up, I was thinking about the biblical story of Samuel - how Hannah wanted a child and couldn't have one. And then God answered her prayer and she named him Samuel, meaning "God has heard." Because I wanted this baby for a long time and had given up on having a third, and then he just sort of showed up in a way that should have been very difficult.
The cool thing about my advanced maternal age is that the did a complete genetic screen and the ultrasound was very in depth. We got to see lots of the baby's organs and bones. In particular, I loved the radius/ulna. It looked just like a regular skeleton, but tiny. He was very active and looked healthy.
I humored the doctor by listening to his recommendation about having the baby born between 39-40 weeks because...okay, honestly I didn't really get what he was saying . Something about being older, increased risk of something, and so on. But absent a major medical problem, this little one will come when he is ready.
Because I am nerdy like that, they also gave me a copy of the baby's family tree that the genetic counselor made. It's cool because it goes all the way back to the baby's great grandparents.
The cool thing about my advanced maternal age is that the did a complete genetic screen and the ultrasound was very in depth. We got to see lots of the baby's organs and bones. In particular, I loved the radius/ulna. It looked just like a regular skeleton, but tiny. He was very active and looked healthy.
I humored the doctor by listening to his recommendation about having the baby born between 39-40 weeks because...okay, honestly I didn't really get what he was saying . Something about being older, increased risk of something, and so on. But absent a major medical problem, this little one will come when he is ready.
Because I am nerdy like that, they also gave me a copy of the baby's family tree that the genetic counselor made. It's cool because it goes all the way back to the baby's great grandparents.