Stephen and I weren't super anxious to know the gender of our little one but when we got the idea of surprising our families on Christmas with the gender we started trying our hardest to find someone on the island who could do an ultrasound for us. We absolutely loved Anne who did our first ultrasounds at the clinic but when we asked her if she could do a gender one she said the clinic would no longer let her in to do ultrasounds because she wasn't technically employed there. So then we went to the clinic to see who there could do the ultrasound. None of the capable doctors there would do it. They said we needed to go to the clinic in Portsmouth on a Saturday when the ultrasound tech would be there. So we set up an appointment with the Ultrasound doctor who comes up a couple times a month from Roseau when I was 17 weeks along. About 20 minutes before the appointment they called and said she decided last minute she didn't want to come. Disappointment was an understatement to how I felt. I actually thought I would be finding out the gender that day and when it didn't happen I got really upset. I called back a few days later when they got around to asking the doctor when she would come up again and it wasn't until the day we were leaving the island. Figures. At that point I was so discouraged that I was fine just waiting until the second week in January to find out the gender when we were originally going to find out. I had heard of a clinic in Salt Lake that would do the ultrasound for us for 60$ so a couple days later after I had time to cool down a bit I made an appointment with them the Tuesday before Christmas in case we changed our minds and wanted to know the gender early still. After all that mess and disappointment of not getting an ultrasound done Stephen was telling one of our friends here who is also in his last semester about our situation and how bummed we were that we couldn't just go to the clinic on campus when there are capable doctors and an ultrasound machine all ready to go. Our friend Adam who Stephen was telling our situation to said he could do it. He knew how to do ultrasounds and had been shadowing a Doctor in Roseau and felt pretty confident that he could figure out the gender for us.
So on our last Sunday (the 14th of December) in Dominica after church we met up with Adam at the clinic. He and Stephen do EMS for the University and know how to get into the clinic off hours so we just helped ourselves to the ultrasound machine. Of course the more the merrier so our good friend Tai and two of her daughters came to watch as well. I was so impressed with how much Adam knew what he was doing. Our little one looked healthy and perfect in every way! After getting a few good shots of the baby's bum Adam was 90% sure our little one was a boy. We kept looking around for about 15 minutes and then on our last glimpse of him we were all 100% sure that our first baby is all boy! It was pretty amazing seeing his little heart, spine, hands, and feet. At one point Adam said he was sucking on his thumb but I couldn't see it. It was all a blur to me. He sure was a wiggle worm the entire time. It was a pretty amazing experience finding out our little one will be a mini Stephen! We are very excited to have a baby boy.
Because we were pretty certain of the gender I canceled my ultrasound in Salt Lake and Stephen and I bought a pair of baby shoes that were blue and wrapped them up and gave them to our moms for Christmas surprising our families with the gender! It was a perfect way to announce our little one. Then today (January 6th) we had our 21 week ultrasound and check up. It was amazing how well we could see him. He is already perfect in every way and so cute. The ultrasound nurse agreed that our little man is in fact a boy! She showed us that he is doing good in every way and gave us our official due date which is May 15 like we thought. Now its just 4 and a half more months until we get to meet our little man.
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