Sex

No, not HAVING sex. The sex of the baby. Not knowing is driving me mad!

Scott swears up and down it's a girl. He had me briefly convinced - especially after one night last week when we dreamt on the same night about it being a girl. But last night I dreamt about it being a boy (and peeing everywhere).

The old wives' tales and urban legends are about 60/40 girl - not enough one direction or another to convince me. The doctor, upon timing the heart rate at 145 last visit - said that he thinks girl. But when I told him I thought that was a myth, he laughed and said it is - and to keep our receipts (meaning, don't buy girl stuff yet unless we can exchange it).

And names. As soon as we discussed names, we decided and agreed upon a boy name we both really like and haven't wavered a bit on the decision. For girl names - we have a middle name we want but can't decide on a first name at all. The name he loves is growing on me, but I'm not in love with it yet. So what does that mean? That it will be a boy since we had such an easy time picking a boy name, or that it will be a girl since we can't decide?

The suspense is killing me. I can't buy any baby stuff, I can't register, I can't call it by anything other than It (or Baby, or Little One, or this week - Avocado). We have a doctor appointment a week from today, at which point we will schedule the gender scan. Doc said, at our last visit, that the gender scan would be a couple weeks away from this next appointment. Exactly 2 weeks would put us at the day after Thanksgiving (and would put me at 19 weeks), so I'm reeeeaaaallly hoping we can do it the day BEFORE Thanksgiving so we can share the news with our families on the holiday! Otherwise, phone calls and e-mails will have to suffice, which isn't as fun.

Any great ideas on how to announce the sex once we know it?