Week 15- Gender Determined?

We had our week 16 appointment in Denver yesterday. We dropped Jack off at Patti’s early but not before loading the kid up on Mickey D’s. Our appointment was scheduled for 11 but in true Vickers' fashion we arrived at 10 and were actually in with the radiologist by 10:30. She took A LOT of scans (somewhere around 150), and Jenni asked if she could check the sex as well...

A and C are most likely boys, and B is ‘probably’ a boy. She was able to get a pretty good look at B but ‘he’ moved and she tried again later and got another good look, saying she was pretty sure it was a boy but wouldn’t guarantee. Before we put Papa Bear on suicide watch, in our meeting with the Dr. after, she felt it was too early to determine definitive anatomy, but thought we would know for sure at either our appointment on the 29th with Dr. Storey, or on our follow up in Denver on the 9th. So there is hope yet. Jack still wants a sister as well, so maybe he and Papa Bear can form a support group...

Researching online I found that they are usually able to tell within about 80% of accuracy within 12-16 weeks. They are more accurate the farther along you are, unless of course the technician rides the short bus to work. Seeing as how we are pretty close to 16 weeks that would put them at about 85% accuracy. Also the errors made at this point are usually incorrectly identifying a boy as a girl and not the other way around, though occasionally a technician will incorrectly identify the umbilical cord as a penis.

Baby A pictured above is located head down on the bottom. A had a heart rate of 148 and all other measurements were good. All babies were measuring within a day at either 15 weeks 6 days or 16 weeks. This is a profile picture and you can see the baby's head laying across from left to right.

Baby B pictured above is breech and located up toward the middle on Jenni's left side. There was some initial concern that A and B might be identicals, but they pretty much ruled that out with this appointment, although they can't tell for certain. Being fraternal triplets eliminates some of the complications that can occur so this was good news. Baby B had a lower heart rate of 127, the Dr. said 120-180 is normal so B was probably just sleeping....B is our holdout and posibly a girl....

Baby C is also breech and is located on Jenni's right side high up almost by her belly button. Jenni thinks she can feel C now that she know's where 'he' is. Baby C had a heart rate of 164 and was doing good as well.

Of course we can't forget Jack attack, here's a picture of him learning to fend for himself.

In other news on mother's day I finally got around to putting the molding up on around the new windows in the soon to be nursery. Like most of my projects I only just put the windows in last summer and am finally getting around to finishing it. Still have to do the outside...but it's a start.

Next appointment-May 29th...in the mean time Jack and I will be heading to Iowa this weekend to spend 2 weeks taking care of the nephew Zander the Jake...