It's a girl!

13th week: For a few weeks now my belly swells more, I'm not only looking pregnant at night after dinner but throughout the day. It's very strange to finally "see pregnancy" rather than fell it. I am looking for positive words for the physical changes that occur, my last speech? I have hips fluffy! The song of "Femme Chocolat" I ride a lot in the head ...

14th week: I started a very scientific approach (Ryan sighs whenever I say that), I'll do "experiments" to try to know the sex of the baby. I started with the experience of kinder surprise. The protocol is as follows: you break open the kinder surprise chocolate but separate along the pre-existing line (attention perfect equality is important for the stability of the couple), you open the capsule and remove the toy. If the toy is for a boy, is that you undoubtedly expect one, if the toy is more focused towards a girl is irretrievably is! J It is simple, not at all sexist and fast! Ryan is ready to play (not to offend my hormones it seems). I asked him: "So what is it? "He replied:" It's a penguin! ". It's not helping much, here is a character from "Happy Feet" who says hi with a wave of his wing. We look at the little pamphlet that goes with (not forgetting to eat our respective half of the chocolate) it seems that he has a bow tie, so it is a male. So first result we expect a boy!



15th week: This week we got the test results for the first quarter. Technically we knew already since nobody had called us that everything is fine, but it is always nice to hear. However, the really important event of this visit is listening for the first time a small music full of life, the heart of our little fish! The midwife asked me to lie down on the examination table, lift my top and roll down my pants. She put a little gel on my belly and placed a small microphone connected to a speaker. We began to hear a steady beat and strong, I looked up at her, and she smiled tenderly. She looked at me and told me: "No honey, that's your heart, it's too slow for the baby, I hear his in the background, wait I'm trying to isolate it." Oops! A few seconds later we started to hear a little heart beat, steady and rapid. I looked at the midwife, she smiled (and a frank smile still amazed after umpteen years of practice. Guess we never get enough of the miracle). I looked at my belly, microphone, midwife, I can not connect this sound with no visual. I finally looked up at Ryan, he looked at me with a smile like only he does, visible in his eyes as much as his mouth, that I love so much.

16th Week: I swelled dangerously! I took 2.3 kg in a month which is a bit scary! Well of course I did not take anything before but it's funny anyway. Mom told me that I my hips were growing, is it normal doctor? It's strange to go from nothing visible to the bump that does not finish growing.
In another vein, we conducted a new experiment as old as the world and pulled a coin to see if it was a girl or a boy. On the front side, Queen Elizabeth, so that obviously would mean a girl. On the flip side, a bird, so evidently the link with the boy is more questionable, but there was only two sides to chose from. Finally we flipped and got a bird, I mean the boy. So the result of scores in our highly scientific study is 2-0 for a boy! The next episode!



17th week: I went to the hairdresser, since I'm pregnant my hair is a disaster! Whatever I do is straw, they buckle really but of course they are thick. I also started to become paranoid about my white hairs, they are not going to multiply by any chance? So the barber discusses the state of sauerkraut that I have on the head, we decided to cut short enough anyway since there is not much else to do. She keeps asking me questions about what I use, we seek an explanation ... And suddenly she repeats a question she had been asked: "Are you sure you did not dyed her hair there say 2 and a half months three months? ". Yeah, I was sure I have not colored my hair for at least 1 year and a half! She told me that this is strange because she can see some hair was brown and now it is white for 3 or 4 cm! What happened 4 months ago by coincidence is that my body started to work for two! I swallow my saliva somewhat painfully, to reassure myself I say this is because I was not taking the right vitamins at the time but now I feel better. And I think that means that maybe the little wolf has a beautiful mane as it is taking all the stuff that is good for hair! A little later the irony of the story makes me smile, Ryan's Mom told me that this phase is the simplest, it is after that it gets complicated. She must be right because I'm already with this little white hair!

18th week: We again had the opportunity to hear the little heart, the midwife took a while to find it so I just started to lose my color, but all is well. It moves a lot in there (she had to follow blindly with the mic). She recorded the rhythm and described it as "perfect" (hey, if it gives me little white hairs it must take everything that is good!). We did a little recording we sent to our families. I had my little brother just shortly after that said it sounds like Darth Vader more than anything else! I'm getting used to my belly it seems more monstrously large but now it starts to be epic when I look to find the place where to put it.

19th week: Big scare, we spent part of the night in the emergency room. I felt like a knife was planted in my back and pierced me through to the belly, every minute in the worst moments. Needless to say, we panicked, thinking that we were losing the baby. The crisis lasted twenty minutes. I was so scared I was shaking like a leaf in a storm barely holding onto my legs. Even if we can not be sure of the diagnosis since all the tests could not be carried out because of pregnancy, it seems that it was a small kidney stone. Pressure on the organs during pregnancy may be responsible. I was able to relax when we had a quick ultrasound and we saw a little heart beating regularly. What a relief!

To defuse the jaws, the results of a new highly scientific experiment. Ryan had to choose between a blue pencil and a pink one which previously had been hidden, and he picked... the ... Blue! So now 3-0 for a boy!

20th week: That's it, there it is! We will finally know, I try to stay calm, hoping that our small mango (The baby is mango sized this week) will keep calm enough for the photos but I was also a little afraid that we might not be able to determine the sex, the thought was almost painful. Our little acrobat was quite cooperative this time, the doctor could take the measurements. After a while I see fit to add that we want to know the sex, in case she does not ask us, but without impatience. This was a great show to see the baby moving, detailing his spine, his feet, his arms, to see where his kidney are, get explainations on some details of his brain, to see his little heart that beats to a quick pace. I feel privileged to observe the tongue(already sticking it out at us), put his hand (or foot) in the mouth, gasping. And finally we are told that it's a girl! We are very happy, we wanted a baby and since the beginning we did not really have a preference , but a girl is awesome! We then took a short walk to get her to roll over and then all measurements are finally taken.

Called Bev(Grammie) in San Diego, she asks what it was after Ryan has talked about the weather, to prolong the suspense I told her in French. She said she does not understand and I replied mischievously she'll have to get to know French. We laugh and tell her, it is all joy, she has one of each so I do not know if she had a preference. Like me she is relieved to be able to start planning, shopping and just happy to know I think.

The night I called my mom Mamina in France, it is morning time for her. I told her to connect to Skype because I want to see her face. When I told her she had big eyes and a beautiful "O" with her mouth (It was worth it to have the video on!) And the first thing she said was: "It's great I can begin to knit dresses! ". It's been a few months since she was eyeing the models in magazines, she was knitting in unisex colors, she tried not to think too much not to be disappointed, and it finally happened! I laugh because I told Bev that Mamina would tell me something in this style!

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21 th week: I forgot to publish the conclusion of my research ultra-scientists who predicted a boy 3 against 0. Well this is not very scientific, the science is no longer what it was! But Ryan is delighted as I thought it was a boy, he said it was a girl and he won!
And I'm working on the baby registry, which I was requested by some people, I'll post in a few days.

Simply happy