So today I went in for an ultrasound to check my cervical length. I am considered high risk and will be recieving these every 4 weeks throughout my pregnancy due to a LEEP procedure I had done as a teenager. Anyways, I am 16+1 weeks today and was keeping my fingers crossed that we would be able to see a gender. That the technician would take the extra time to check and that my nugget would cooperate with us. To back up a little, this is my 5th pregnancy (4th child as my first pregnancy was an ectopic) but my first child with my fiancé. He has no other children and we only want one (I'm 30 and he's 34 and we had always talked about having only one child.) We had wanted to be married first and be more financially secure but my birth control failed the first month I was back to taking it and we ended up with this unplanned pregnancy. Honestly it has been very stressful with the pregnancy being unplanned as we are both unemployed and are having problems finding employment. Currently we live in the in-law suite at his parents house. I could care less where we lived or with who as long as we are together but that's not really a relative piece of information. Craig desperately wants a little girl. To the point (and this was a joke that made me laugh my butt off) where he said "if we're having a boy I'm putting 'wife and infant son for sale' on Craigslist. So on to the point, today we had the ultrasound to check my cervical length and I was blessed to have a technician who, when I asked if she could quickly do a scan to check for gender, immediately said "of course". Prior to the appointment Craig and I were both really nervous that we were going to have gender disappointment, he was convinced it was going to show boy. BUT HE WAS WRONG! I was immediately able to see those three lines for my little girl, and even before the tech said anything I had a huge smile on my face. My fiancé was so so so very happy that his face lit up like I've never seen and his smile stayed on his face for the longest time. We are thinking about announcing everything Christmas (as his parents don't even know about the pregnancy and the only one who does know is my mom-who I told must act surprised). I'm nervous about saying anything but I'm so happy right now. We are taking this time to enjoy this together. He's going to have his little girl and I get to add another wonderful daughter to my family.