Need some good news. Any gender guess on our little bean?

Um, yeah!  The whole point was to hopefully find out results before the holiday weekend instead of worrying about it.  And now today, my mind is playing tricks on me.  I just started daydreaming and thought, "Hmmm, I wonder if my test came back positive and they decided to re-run the test to make sure and that's why its taking so long..."

 Grrr!

 I think I see some girly nub shots in the first two minutes (here and there).  I do see a slight angle, but at 12+4, I would guess 

STILL no news as of this afternoon.

Any other guesses? 

Interesting that more people are guessing girl!

 I can't believe this...

just realised i voted previously and watched the video and it is a very girly looking nub with no angle. girl

 Any updates?

 What's going on?

 Any news on baby's health?  I hope & pray all is well! 

FINALLY! I have some news....but first, you won't believe what happened. Sequenom, the lab who processes the MaterniT 21 test was taking a crazy long time processing our sample. Finally, on the 10th business day last week I got a call from the genetic counselor saying that she has never had this happen before, but Sequenom actually contaminated my specimen somehow making it impossible to render any kind of result, therefore our test was inconclusive. Can you believe that?! All that stress and now I still didn't have answers! The company was really apologetic and thankfully refunded the money that we had to spend out of pocket for the test....

Then I had to decide what to do next. Do the test again and go through all of that again, do an amnio or do nothing. I know it's a very personal decision, but in the end I decided to do an amnio. Not that it would change us carrying the pregnancy to term, *but* if our little baby needed specialized care or would need surgery or anything else right away, I wanted to be prepared as much as possible. I thought the anxiety leading up to the amnio was worse than the actual procedure. We had a beautiful scan of our little baby and then had the amnio. The needle was in an out in less than two minutes. The oddest part was following the whole thing on u/s while it was being done. It was odd to feel the needle (it was like 8 inches long) go into my stomach, then into muscle, then finally into my uterus. And even odder to see the needle behind the baby's head on the screen. Such precise stuff. There's definitely a reason why doctors get paid what they do!

Anyway, I got my FISH results yesterday which confirmed that we have a HEALTHY baby GIRL! I still have yet to receive the full panel of results (those should come in a week) but she does not have any defect of trisomies 13, 18 or 21. So thank you all for your input on the gender of our sweet girl, but more importantly...thank you for your prayers and kind thoughts during this REALLY stressful time.

 (sorry I was so long winded)

I thought I'd share how we told our 5 year old little girl Norah that we were having a girl. Here's her reaction. I love her!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s2tVLdt-DY&feature=share 

And a picture of our sweet girl....

(can't get the picture to upload, but that's ok...the you tube video of us telling norah is way more entertaining and fun!)  :)

 That video was so cute it made me cry!

So happy to hear the FISH results came out great...when we went through it my genetic counselor told me in 20 years of doing it that only 4 times did she see FISH results differ from final results...so happy you have a healthy baby girl in there:)

 Congratulations on your HEALTHY BABY GIRL!!!! 

So glad you can finally have peace and prepare for your daughter to be born! 

ETA:  I love that precious little face your daughter has when she hears for certain that 'it's a girl!'  So precious and priceless!