Prediction???

This morning we all went to my monthly Doctor's appointment, but this wasn't any traditional experience seeing the Doctor. Instead of seeing our Primary OB, we saw the Practitioner instead.  Peyten as usual wanted to be heard and was talking the Doctor's ear off and in the conversation the Doctor offered Peyten the chance to help with checking the baby's heart beat. When it was time, she got a stool for her to stand on and then let Peyten squeeze the jelly on my tummy and then actually let her hold the wand to hear the heartbeat!  Peyten was happy as happy could be helping out!  

As great as it was to have Peyten helping in the appointment, I also has a moment of real concern for the baby.  I started to get really worried after about a minute or so because she wasn't picking up the heartbeat and usually it's heard almost right away. It actually took a couple minutes to finally find it, but those minutes felt like 20. It was the first time I really had a real concern that something was wrong and started tearing up.  I think Cory started feeling it too because he came closer and held my leg to give me a little comfort to let me know he was right there.  The only thing that kept me from freaking out was how much she said the baby was moving. Most likely she had a hard time because the baby was moving so much...it kept hitting the wand when she was moving it around.  Hopefully that never happens again!!! 

Since we have our Gender Ultrasound next week at 17 1/2 weeks, we wanted to get the Fetal Heart Rate to try and guess weather we were having a Boy or Girl based on how fast the heart rate was. The myth is that if the baby has a heart rate of 140+ BPM it's a Girl and under 140 BPM it's a Boy. Well...this baby is at 144 BPM.  Since it's right about in the middle,  we are more confused than ever as to what we think.  Cory is not thinking that he may be out numbered and I was back on the Boy side, but now I'm not sure.  So... we want to take a pole this time around and get everyone's prediction...Boy or Girl???  Just remember, this is not scientific fact it's just  an old fashion way of predicting the gender so give it your best shot!