So yesterday was the ultrasound. And it was super weird. Andiclaus is going to try to scan the images at Kinkos I think. The sonogram technician definitely thinks I am the least maternal person she has ever seen. The baby moved all over the place and it looked remarkably humanish. I haven't had an ultrasound since week 9 and back then Fefe was mostly just a heartbeat. Now it had all kinds of parts.

You can see through Fefe, so we could look at its brain and the four chambers of its heart. We saw its kidneys and its stomach (below the heart, apparently a good thing). The whole thing was very alienish.

She looked and looked and all of a sudden goes, "Ooop. I know the gender." (She really means sex as gender is a social construct, but I'm sure she didn't mean anything by it.) I'm looking at the screen and I swear to God, there are no identifiable parts on it. I was like, "okay."

"It really is a Fefe."

What does that mean? Is Fefe a gendered name, because Sarah really thought it stood for Fetus. And isn't Fefe really, like, an animal name? Like a dog?

"What?"

"It's a girl."

"Are you serious?" (No, I am not proud of this response.)

"Yeah."

"How do you know?"

"See those three little white lines?"

"Um, yeah."

"Girl parts. If it was a boy, there wouldn't be three little lines, there would be boy parts." (Have I not explained to this woman that I am a feminist and don't particularly care for cute names for parts?)

"So you know it's a girl because of the three lines, or because there's no penis?"

"The three lines."

"Well, what are they?"

"Labia."

Excellent. So the baby has two arms, two legs, a brain, four heart chambers, two kidneys, a stomach and labia. She says she's 98% sure it's a girl, which is definitely more certainty than I really expected.

Additionally, while Fefe is sort of cute when she's laying down in profile, I am here to tell you that you do not want to see an ultrasound picture of a baby face forward. She looks like the Cryptkeeper. I had nightmares.

In other vaginal news, I have a bacterial infection. (Sorry if that was gross, but it's my blog and if I'm going to show you pictures of the parasite in the uterus, you will have to get used to the gross stuff.) But I'm taking some meds and should be fine. Also, the placenta looks like it is not covering the cervix, so we're good there as well. (Although now we're back to unexplained bleeding which is my favorite.) We got information to sign up for childbirth and breastfeeding classes and I have successfully gained the right amount of weight for where I am in this pregnancy, to which I say, Thank God for the morning sickness. Otherwise, I would have already gained 35 pounds.