It's a Boy!

I'm sure Alison would disagree with me on this point, but having gone through the paces of pregnancy once it seems like this second one is just flying by. Of course I don't have discomfort and nausea to deal with so what would I know. Either way we had our 19 week morphology scan this morning and discovered that Eleanor is going to have a baby brother in March.

Measurements were actually quite similar to what we got for Eleanor at her scan, with the exception of leg length. While Nelly was in the 98% percentile for her femur, our new little boy is just a little below the average. Got to blame dad for inheriting stumpy asian legs I guess.

Biparietal Diameter	43.6 mm
Occipitofrontal Diamater	59.2 mm
Head Circumference	164.3 mm
Transcerebellar Diameter	19.6 mm
Abdominal Circumference	143.1 mm
Femur Length	29.8 mm

Not everything went smoothly for this scan however. The sonographer detected a small (2 mm) hole in the heart and classified it as a minor Ventricular Septal Defect. Apparently these things are pretty common and have a high likelihood of fixing themselves before term so there's nothing to worry about. Even so we've been called back in for an additional scan in January to make sure that everything is going alright.

Aside from that the baby seems to be developing perfectly fine. Just like his sister, he refused to perform and sit still for photos during the scan. None of the "4D" photos were decent on account of obstruction by two or more limbs with an umbilical cord in the way. Nothing new I guess, but if I can use Nelly as a guide I can now rest assured that it doesn't mean that this kid won't want to have his photo taken when he's out in the world.

So there you have it. Of course we would have been happy with a boy or a girl, but in some ways we're quite pleased that Nelly won't have to compete with another for the title of our favourite daughter. Now we just have to prepare ourselves for an entirely different nappy changing experience.