Pregnancy

I am currently 21 weeks and 1 day.

We had our anatomy scan yesterday and I swear the realization that I was pregnant finally hit me like a ton of bricks. 

It was also the day we found out the gender. 

I was nervous all morning, a good nervous. In the exam room, I was jittery and could feel my heart racing. 

Once I saw the baby on the screen, with its hands moving, I became so emotional. Tahmeed and Noah were also there, and we both wanted to cry. This was it, another beautiful baby Allah has blessed us with. I couldn't believe it. I've been so busy with life in general to think about this baby, plus baby has been pretty quiet, only starting to kick very recently. 

The heart was pumping and I saw all the beautiful ventricles. Today was also the first time I heard my baby's heartbeat. The spine, the brain, the stomach, all beautiful and intact. All together, a 12 ounce baby. "Baby is healthy and so cooperative, I have a feeling this will be the best one I've done today!" said the sonographer. Alhamdulillah. 

Alhamdulillah, what a blessing! 

18 more weeks and we will meet our new love inshallah. 

And later on today, we're doing a gender reveal to our family. I'm going to make a cake with the batter being the color of the baby's gender. It'll be covered with white butter cream so in order to find out, you have to cut the cake. 

And the batter will be pink becauseeeeeeeeeee it's a girl. Alhamdulillah.