We went back to Kaiser Permanente today to find out the gender of our baby. We went to Kaiser medical imaging for the sonogram. They charged me $50 which surprised me. I thought this was covered under prenatal care which is free for us on our plan.  The lady kept saying, “There is a $50 Copay.” We’re on the $0/$1500 Deductible Plan with HSA, which has no copayments, so I was confused. I questioned the lady at the register a couple of times. She really didn’t know how all the plans worked, so she encouraged me to talk to member services. I haven’t done that yet. I went ahead and paid the $50, and we went in for the sonogram.

On the way in, I actually prayed we’d get a nice person to work with. My previous experience with Kaiser Permanente medical imaging wasn’t so good, but this lady ended up being friendly and helpful. She kicked up the sonogram machine, put the gel on my wife’s belly and then we got to see our baby. She measured the head, the spine, the waist and more. I had a hard time telling what body parts were what, but she was patient and explained things to us. Our baby had his/her legs crossed. First they were crossed at the knees, and later they were crossed at the ankles; the legs never opened up. Our medical imaging tech aimed the sonogram machine from lots of different angles, but our baby kept those legs tightly together. All that to say, we still don’t know the gender of our baby. My wife was bummed. We did really appreciate the effort that the lab tech went through. She said it’s not too often that she is unable to tell the gender of the baby. I guess God just wants us to wait. He’s going to teach us a little patience.