So many of you know that I am pregnant with my first child. We're 20 weeks along now. Those of you who do not wish to know whether the baby is going to be a boy or a girl may as well look at the ultrasounds and not read any of the rest of this post, just being assured that everything looks to be developing normally. You may also wish to cut off contact with the rest of our friends and family, many of whom know. :)

Click on the thumbnails to see bigger (and fuzzier) pictures of Baby Heber!

And.... stop here if you want to be surprised.

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Yes, Baby Heber is very likely going to be Baby Boy Heber (much to my sister's chagrin :) ). He looks perfectly normal, and had a heartbeat today of 139 beats per minute. His head measurements and leg measurements, etc, were all perfectly normal, and there was no signs of anything going wrong. So far, he looks like he's going to be a healthy, normal baby boy come December! The person doing the ultrasound said she was 99% certain our baby was a boy, since she couldn't be 100% certain. All of the bones looked good, and we paused for a bit to just watch the four chambers of his heart pump. Yes, I am still a biology geek. On that note, his bones were awesome! I could have just looked at them all day. At times, since it's a moving picture and not like the stills we uploaded, you could see pretty cool details, like his little legs kicking, and his head turning. It looked like he was waving at us when we snapped the picture of his hand. I think his little face is just adorable, but that could be just mama-hormones coming out in me :). Oh! and we found out why I haven't felt him moving yet- the placenta is in the front, so that's not uncommon.

We almost immediately started tossing names around, though we have a long time to decide. We have some names we like, but we also want to make sure they fit him when we finally get to see him face to face, and we have time to think about alternate names and add and subtract names from the "like list". The ultrasound technician said from the measurements that our due date should be the 9th, but our OB is keeping it the 13th, since it's an estimate anyway. She did say she wouldn't let the birth be later than the 19th, as she doesn't want pregnancies to go past the 40th week. So we'll definitely get to introduce little Baby Boy Heber to the world face to face by Christmastime!