Highly Carbonated // drinking a soda before your sonogram

[Just Pete]

So NASA Janet and I went for our 18-week sonogram, hoping to divine the gender of our child. In preparation, we had been told to have the mom-to-be guzzle a can of caffeinated soda just before going in; the idea being that a hyper child would move around, giving the sonogrammist(?!) a better chance of seeing more of the child.

The result was a little disappointing. We found on the monitor a child comfortably balled up in the fetal position with a slightly increased heart rate. The recommendation, we were told by PROFESSIONAL staff, was a myth and the caffeine only served to make for a hyper, balled up baby. But at least we got to see a couple powerful leg kicks.

It'll be 4 more weeks before we get another crack at baby gender. Until then, the nursery stays green.

[Beebe]

Raelynn didn't co-operate either it took 3 different tries to get it figured out and then the sonographer(?) still wouldn't give us more than a 70% chance. After 2 more ultrasounds, we had a lot of them my wife was incredibly sick the entire pregnancy, she finally decided to let us know and the sonographer said 90% and so it was. But we still had a boy name picked, just in case.

[Apricot]

Well that migth work I was told to eat large amounts ao carbs the morning of the sonogram, so it would have time to turn in to energy to motivate the baby.
Good luck sorting out boy or girl and nursery colors in four more weeks.