It's a BOY!

Arrow is pointing to his boy parts :) This pic is taken as if baby is placed on his bottom on a glass table and you were looking up. You can see his cute little bottom, top of legs, and boy parts.

Baby's profile...sweet little nose

Baby likes his arm by his face...he kept nuzzling his face into his elbow. You can see his tummy and his knee . I like that you can see his features..nose and mouth .

Baby's feet.

You can see profile of baby: head, arm by face, body, 2 knees and a leg .

So yes, we have a little Corey on the way :) Today was our anatomy ultrasound and 20 week checkup. The ultrasound went fine, we got to see the brain, heart, kidneys, bladder, arms, legs, feet, etc. At the end the tech looked for gender and said that sure looks like boy parts to me...the doctor confirmed and said "if that's not a boy then that needs to be surgically removed!"

The doctor told us that my bloodwork screening for my risks for defects and downs came back great...my risk is over 1 in 10,000.

However we do have 1 new prayer request:

The ultrasound showed a small benign fluid filled cyst on the right ventricle of our baby boy's brain. The doctor wasn't worried and said this happens in about 20% or all normal/healthy pregnancies. Normally the cyst will resolve itself and go away on its own as the baby grows, but sometimes the cyst is still present when the baby is born. They are having me come back for a 28 week ultrasound to check on it. If the baby is born with it then our pediatrician will keep an eye on it. They would just watch it to make sure it doesn't grow or leak fluid that could cause hydro-cephalis (not sure I spelled correctly). She told me the name of the cyst but I can't remember nor pronounce. Our doctor said in her 20 years as an obgyn, she has never had a case where the cyst didn't go away on its own even if it was after birth. I'm sure everything will be fine, but prayers never hurt. Please pray that the cyst will resolve itself before our boy is born, and that it will not cause any damage.

Otherwise everything looked ok, and our growth was on point. Baby is about 11 ounces and about the length of a banana. We go back in 4 weeks for a normal checkup, and in 8 weeks for the gestational diabetes test and a follow up ultrasound.

Thanks again for everyone's prayers...now time to start figuring out how to decorate our boy's nursery!

Love, Corey, Ashley, Baby Burns, and Izzie