Baby #2 Boy or Girl? What's Your Guess?

It's that time again….we find out the gender tomorrow!  If you are friends with me on social media than you know how crazy excited I am to find out!  Once again I feel like a little kid the day before Christmas, so excited for the big surprise.  I really love finding out early, its gives you and extra fun day besides the actual day of birth.

To back up a little, I had a rougher 1st trimester than I did with Cooper.  I had the regular symptom of  being completely exhausted which was what I had with Cooper.  I had to take a power nap every single day during my 1st trimester or I felt like I just couldn't make it through the rest of the day.  I was also a lot more nauseous with this baby than I was with Cooper.  It still wasn't near as bad as most people, as I never actually got sick, but I felt nauseous off and on every day with this baby.  It started at week 5 or 6  and went through until around week 12.  With Cooper, reading back my nausea lasted just a couple of weeks and it didn't seem as severe.  This makes Justin think it's a girl, but I'm not so sure.  Everything in my pregnancy seems very similar so far which makes me think the baby might be a boy.

Thankfully I am feeling GREAT now!  I feel like a whole new person.  I don't have to take a nap at all and still feel good throughout the day.  My nausea is completely gone and I don't have any aches and pains yet like I get in the 3rd trimester.  I do worry that something is wrong, even though I just heard the heartbeat 2 weeks ago, but I'm trying to just relax and enjoy this 2nd trimester as it is the BEST!  I looked back on my blog about Cooper during this time and I was also feeling great and was worried that something was wrong because of it.  It definitely helps to have already gone through this once before.

I will also say that this baby's heartbeat has been a lot higher than Cooper's.  At 9 weeks, the heart rate was 178 which is very high and then it was in the 160's at 13 weeks.  Justin even asked the Doctor if there was any truth at all that the high heart rate is more likely mean a girl and she said not at all!  LOL of course these wives tales aren't true, but it's fun to guess right?

People ask me a lot of what I want to have.  I know this is the PC answer, but I truthfully don't have a preference!  At the beginning I was leaning more towards girl because I have always wanted to have a girl…but Lord willing this is not our last child so I also think it would be SO fun to have another boy.  I would love for Cooper to have a brother close to his age.  I really do love being a boy mom too and so I think it would be fun.  Either way, this baby is a blessing from the Lord and we will both be thrilled to have a boy or girl.

At the beginning of the pregnancy, I was guessing girl because I seemed to be more nauseous…but now I think I have changed to guessing boy.  The pregnancy seems so similar to me in every other way.  Justin has guessed girl pretty much the whole time.  I will say this….Justin was right about Cooper and I was wrong…so if that is the case again, maybe we will have a girl?!?!  We will find out tomorrow! What's your guess??