Baby Girl!

We went to our doctors on a Tuesday morning to have the gender of the baby sealed in the envelope. Of course the doctor told us everything looked great with the baby & also warned us that they can only be 98% accurate with the gender. He sealed the envelope & we left his office feeling extremely excited/ anxious for what was to be revealed inside. 

My husband Chris & I had this big elaborate plan of having a cake made & celebrating with family. Or the most recent idea was popping a large black ballon with confetti inside. Well we lasted all of 2 minutes before we got into the car looked at each other & decided it was time to open it.... The suspense was killing us both so we just had to do it! I captured the moment on video of Chris ripping open the envelope (picture a kid on Christmas morning after Santa has come!) He held up the doctors note which had a few lines written on it, threw me off. I was looking for a simple message that said "boy or girl". Until I glanced at it again, I read "the fetus appears to be female". Oh my goodness!!!!! Such excitement & happiness :) Of course there were tears of joy. Chris had been saying baby girl since day 1 but for some reason I had thought it would be a boy. Wow! 

We kept the secret to ourselves for a few days but everyone else was bugging us to find out so we sent out the video to our friends & family to share the news. We feel so extremely grateful that not only is our baby healthy but she is a little girl. So excited to welcome her in June. We love you already baby Coulter xoxo.

19 Weeks!

Here we are at 19 weeks, pretty amazing! We had our ultrasound on Friday. Everything really set in...We really are going to be parents & we really are in love with baby. It was so active! Stretching out it's legs & arms. It was also sucking it's thumb (uh oh we might have a thumb sucker!) but it was sure cute at the time. We meet with our doctor tomorrow. We have asked him to seal the gender in an envelope so we can make the decision to find out. If so, we will have some sort of celebration to celebrate the gender. I'm leaning towards having a baker bake us a cake or popping a black balloon with pink or blue confetti. Still undecided! So many fun things to come.

Size: Mango, baby weighs 10oz

Baby: As of late last week I have started to feel lots of movement. More so little flutters or can also be explained as a fish splashing. The heart is beating like crazy at 152. So neat! 

Momma: Feeling much much better! I think the nausea & vomiting (knock on wood, as I don't want to jinx anything!) may have subsided. Sleeping through the night, mornings are a little more challenging. Trying to get in all the nutrients I can by healthy foods & vitamins. 

We are almost halfway there! Getting excited that we will soon enough meeting our little bundle of joy! 

Melissa xo