Baby Rocks!

Today, my wife and I went to the gynecologist to check on our baby. We got up pretty early as our appointment was 9am. However, as a typical Singaporean, we left our house at 8.50am, reaching only at 9.20am.

At the clinic, my wife went away for a while, to go through the usual check up procedure at the clinic before waiting for her turn to see the gynecologist. I had nothing to do, so I picked up a family magazine to read. All of a sudden, I remembered that this was my wife’s fourth month of pregnancy. We could find out the gender of our baby! How exciting!

It was our turn. We stepped into the gynecologist’s office. She asked the usual questions about the health of my wife and went through some official documents with us. She told us that we would be able to find out the gender of the baby. My wife and I smiled at each other. Our facial features look different. My wife has big beautiful eyes, while I have small ones. She has a small nose, while I have a big one. Thus the baby’s features, such as eyes and nose, will be easily distinguished to be either inherited from my wife or me. (Hopefully, inherit more of my wife’s and not too much of mine.)

The gynecologist went through the ultra scan and she was able to pick up the head and limbs of the little one. She then pointed at the cheek bone of our baby. It was very obvious even when our baby was still in the womb. Then I remembered. The only feature my wife and I have that is similar is that we have high cheek bones. No wonder, our baby’s cheek bone is so obvious.

Anyway, when the scan ended, we were told that the gender of our baby could not be distinguished yet. The baby wasn’t cooperative enough to let us know the gender. The legs were like a pair of chopsticks parallel to each other. Since they were not apart, the gynecologist was unable to tell the gender.

I feel that having a baby boy or a baby girl really does not matter. As long as our baby is healthy, we are very happy.