On Friday, Antoinette and I took a visit to the doctor's office for her routine 4 week visit. The doctor ran some tests, including blood work, which we'll get the results of sometime this week. Also, she performed a physical exam of Antoinette and told us that everything is moving along right on schedule. Antoinette's pelvic bone structure is a good, healthy shape for a natural delivery. She also used a Fetal Doppler to pick up the baby's rapidly beating hearbeat and play it through a speaker so we could hear it. The heart rate is about double an normal adult heart rate. All very good, very healthy signs.
From a development standpoint, the baby has formed its own tiny fingerprints already. The veins and organs are clearly visible through the very thin skin and the body size is beginning to catch up with the head in terms of natural proportions, now only taking up 1/3 of the overall body length, as opposed to the previous 1/2 dimensions.
Finally, not that this is relevant in any scientific way, but all four hokey online tests we used to determine the baby's gender have all come back that we are having a girl. One uses the baby's heart rate to make the call, one uses the Chinese Lunar Calendar, and two use composites of a dozen or so old wives tales. All have been proven to be completely unreliable, but there's something to be said for going 4 for 4, right? I still think its going to be a girl and Antoinette thinks boy, but last night, Antoinette dreamed we were having a girl. Did it change her mind? Nope. Her motherly intuition is saying boy still. We'll find out on November 21st.
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