Appointment #13 - Second Guesses

Everything checked out beautifully. I even lost a pound after eating ice cream for dinner two nights in a row and a huge lunch today. Last week, The Baby's heart rate registered around 150 which my doctor said, "is a good girl heart rate." This week The Baby was pumping at 130-140 which is in the other direction. The perinatologist who did the ultrasound around 18 weeks said it was a girl but I've told myself all along that it's not 100%. Now granted, there's not much medical stock put into the heart rate thing but if my doctor is second guessing, I start to too.

Then again, Nino, our Sicilian pizza man, said that I am "carrying high" and therefore it's a girl. He has to be right - Old Sicilian Wive's Tales and all.

I've said before that I'm not opposed to dressing the fellow in pink. Besides, I have a boy name that I'm very partial to.