While I know everyone has their thoughts about whether or not they would want to know the sex in advance, both Joe and I felt strongly that we wanted to know! To us, it was going to be as much of a surprise at 20 weeks (or 18 in our case) as at 40 weeks . We preferred the added months of knowing just who was in there - and time for planning! Still, we wanted to make sure the moment was very special and intimate.
My friend Rachel suggested the perfect way to find out! We both attended the ultrasound so that we could see the baby (oh, how I love ultrasounds...what a gift!), but instead of having the doctor tell us the sex right then and there, we asked her to write it down for us. She placed the pictures of the babies "organ", along with a hand-drawn key, in a sealed envelope. This was on a Monday, so we made dinner reservations for a nice dinner out for that Friday night. We had all week to get excited! For sentiments sake we went to eat at Keefer's, which is the restaurant where Joe took me to dinner the night we got engaged. As soon as we placed our drink order Joe insisted we open it...
...there on the doctor's drawing was a "penis"! How fantastic. Joe had been swearing up and down Baby M. was a girl. While I wasn't quite sure, his conviction was making me convinced too! Needless to say, we were both surprised! Surprised in a wonderful way, of course. We could not be happier!
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