Last Friday we had our second meeting with our obstetrician, Victoria Myers, whom we love. But at Mass General, it's the nurses who operate the little sound-wand thingie.
When we were in there at 9.5 weeks they were just barely able to find little Flinger's heartbeat, after much prodding and poking and hunting around. This time, we were able to hear it right away! The heartbeat clocks in at 140 BPM, somewhat faster than the correct tempo for Bach's Invention #8, which piece I am able to use as my internal clock for 120 BPM, ever since practicing it so much during my final year in music school that the tempo is now indelibly etched in my psyche.
Mary heard an old wives' tail that boys' heartbeats are supposed to be faster than girls'. Or vice versa. In any case, average heartbeat for our baby's stage of development is between 120 and 160. So even if there were some truth to the old wives' tail (which I think we discovered there is not) our kid's not tellin' anything.
We're dying to find out this kid's gender. It'll be another 3.5 weeks 'til we're able to do so. Meanwhile, at least one office pool is forming on the subject. The smart money seems to be on Girl at this point. I have one friend who, I'm not sure why, is quite adamant that it will be a girl, and completely dismisses any suggestion to the possibility of the alternative.
Mary and I concur. We're guessing it'll be a girl. Probably should be, for the sake of balance... if I, the dog, and the kid were all male, Mary might well start to feel out-numbered.
Please do submit your guesses in the "comments" area!
2 comments:
Aunt Deeda says it's a boy....a little speed demon just like his daddy....poor Mary!!!
We had a friend (who claimed he was a witch) swear that our kid would be a girl, but it was a boy.
Have you considered *not* finding out the gender until birth? We did that. The suspense was incredible -- one of the few really big surprises you get in life...
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