And it's a.........

Baby. That's right, it's a little baby, about as long as a traditional deli pickle (5.5 in. in length!). Peanut has been doing pretty well down in the belly. Our first fetal echocardiogram was this past week and so far the baby's heart looks and sounds great with no indication yet of heart block. It's early, and the SSA (mom's antibodies) will start to hit the baby more this week, so more echos to come. It was kinda cool to see the valves of the heart opening and closing.

Oh by the way, it's a girl!! At this point they are 80% positive. They were able to identify the labia line and surrounding girl parts. I'm more familiar with older ultrasound technology where they just look for the absence of boy parts, but now they actually can confirm female genitalia, which is pretty cool.

Boy or girl, there is gonna be a whole lotta purple going on! ;)