Back from my 20 week scan!!!

Ahhh, the big question! ;) Which I will tell you the answer to in JUST A MINUTE! I have no time to post much, but just to say the scan went well! I can't tell you how relieved I was when all the organs and things were checking out fine as the lady was doing the scan. She took measurements of the heart and kept pausing and freeze-framing things, and I was holding my breath some of the time! When she said it was all fine, I thanked God that the heart was fine, and then she moved onto the next thing to check and I held my breath again! I'm so so so unbelievably thankful that all the various parts of my little baby were normal and healthy looking. Phew! We did not get any glimpses of the gender during the earlier part of the scan, which I am glad about because I wanted to wait (for once! Usually I am itching to find out as early in the scan as possible! Maybe it was the concern this time that everything was okay?) until the end where they usually ask if we want to know and then show us.

So she asked, and I said yes please, and Cornflake was VERY obliging! ;) AND I found the cable to my scanner - woohoo!!!! So even without my laptop, I CAN show you the ultrasound pictures! :)

Soooo, Cornflake's gender!....

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So so so happy! Five boys!!!!! I can't believe it, even though I knew it (that makes no sense, I know, lol!). I have FIVE sons. Fiiiive sons. Amazing. I'm so grateful to God for all the little boys He is blessing me with! :)

Here are the pictures of his profile. I am SO in love. He is so darling and precious, and the instant I saw his dear little pointy chin I cried out, "Oh! Look at his little chinny!" and then apologised for my mushy outburst, hehe! To me - and I'll have to check this, haven't had chance yet - his profile looks JUST like Nathan's and very similar to Benjamin's too. He reminds me ever so much of Nathan.







His name is Samuel Robert. Well done Annie and Beckstar! :D We LOVE his name! Samuel means "heard of God" or "God has heard" - He certainly heard my prayer for more sweet babies and has blessed me incredibly! I love my God! Robert is the last family name that I have really wanted to use. Some of you might remember that I wanted to use it for Benjamin's middle name but Benjamin Robert IS my brother's whole name and we had enough trouble from family for just naming him Benjamin, sooo.... Robert was my grandfather's name, and his daughters (my mum and her sister) used it for their boys - my cousin is named Robert, and my brother of course has it for a middle name. I'm so happy to honour my grandfather who died when I was one, by using his name! I also just love how it sounds with Samuel.

Samuel!!! Wheeee, now I can use his name here all the time! :D

PLEASE DON'T LET ON ABOUT HIS NAME AT FACEBOOK!!!! My many real-life and church friends follow me there and I don't want them to know until we announce his birth, as is our usual thing. Thanks! :)

I have SO much more detail that I want to write about the scan (including a weird thing about my placenta, that the lady said was nothing to worry about - it's high and anterior, but there's a piece totally separate from it on the back wall. What?!?! Will write more about that another time.) but I have run out of time - the boys are eating dinner and I still need to phone family. I will be back soon to fill in the other details. I am just so happy that it's Samuel! I wanted him from the moment we knew his name :)