JONES family

I realized that I hadn't posted on our blog the gender of our 3rd baby! With facebook, it seems like everyone knows already, it's old news, but I figured I should journal about it.

We are having our THIRD girl!!! I still can't believe we'll have three little girls running around, but it's exciting thinking of how close they all are, 2 years apart from each other, and hopefully how close they will be playing together growing up.

That thursday of the ultrasound, which was at 10:00, I actually had a Dr.'s appointment scheduled for 9:00. I went to my Dr.'s office, not really thinking much of it. I figured I'd be in and out since I knew how everything worked by then. I walked back to the exam room with the new nurse practitioner. She chit chatted for a while at the beginning, asking if I had any concerns or worries. I told her that I didn't really feel the baby much yet. Every few days I felt a little flutter, but nothing too often.

She pulled out the doppler to find the heartbeat. She went all around my belly with it, but couldn't find it. I told her that the previous 2 appointments I'd had they found the heartbeat really low on my belly, so she tried that. Nothing! She searched and searched, pushed on my belly at all different angles with that thing and couldn't hear a heartbeat. She kept asking if I could feel the baby moving and I couldn't. She tried for over 20 minutes and her face looked worried and stern (which did not calm my fears)...finally she said, "Well...I guess we'll just check with the little ultrasound machine to see what's going on in there." She left the room for 5-10 minutes. I thought maybe she was talking to the Dr. about how the baby in room 2 was gone. I broke down and cried and just prayed and prayed.  I'd never had this problem before, especially at 20 weeks. 

Before the nurse came in again with the ultrasound I was assured that everything was ok. I had a feeling like this baby was just fine and was supposed to be in our family. Thank goodness, or else I would have been balling like a baby in front of the nurse :) By the time she was back in the room I felt peaceful and not worried. Sure enough, after a minute of the ultrasound on my belly, they found her little heart pumping away. 20 minutes later at the official 20 week ultrasound we found out that our baby is a girl and I couldn't have been happier. She is healthy, and coming to a family who will welcome her with open arms! We love our girls and Gracie was definitely positive it was a little sister.  I looked at Jared and said, "are you ok with another girl?" He said, "Are you kidding? I LOVE our girls!"