First off, thanks to everyone who voted on my Twitter poll or on Facebook – it was so fun to see what everyone thought our babe will be! We are so excited to share this gender reveal with you all! Secondly, this post has been delayed TWICE because I actually ended up in the ER and admitted to the hospital on the day of our original 20 week ultrasound. And then while I was writing up this post I ended up needing to go in for surgery. Now, don’t worry, baby and I are both doing fine! But let me tell you, it’s been rough.

We headed off to our 20 week ultrasound and on the way there I started having some pain in my right side. We arrived at the doctor’s office and during our 15 minutes of waiting, the pain got SO much worse. It was this intense and constant stabbing/aching/burning feeling right underneath my right ribs and wrapping around to my back. No position changes or anything helped. And then the vomiting started right there in the waiting room and I knew it was probably not good. (Also, enjoy some random pics from our UK trip scattered throughout this post since I’m not really sure what sort of pictures to put here hah)
The nurses whisked me back and did a quick scan on my baby just to make sure that I wasn’t in preterm labor and that baby was in fact healthy and okay. Which it was – normal heartbeat, normal cervix, normal fluid, everything. Phew! But at that point they wanted to get me into the ER – clearly there was no ...