My wife and I are Kaiser Permanente members and we’re having a baby! We’re actually half way to our due date, which is January 30, 2009. We’ve visited the doctor twice and we’re going again tomorrow. Tomorrow we find out if we’re having a boy or a girl.

Our first visit ended up taking most of our day, which I believe is a bit atypical. We had a sonogram. The lady who did the sonogram was very warm an friendly. We saw a healthy baby and we were happy. I was wondering if we might see twins in there, but only one kid. She also found a sist. She didn’t know if that was serious or not so she scheduled us to meet with a higher level sonogram tech that afternoon to check it out. She went on to plan out our doctor visits with us.

In between visits my wife cried. She was worried about the sist. I was so glad we were able to get the follow up exam that day. The higher level sonogram tech was not very friendly and rather cold, but she did assure us that the sist wasn’t a big deal and that our baby should be fine. My wife missed her first visit with the actual doctor. We were assigned a doctor that deals with the tougher cases because of our “sist issue”. My wife hasn’t been remembering things quite as well since she got pregnant, and when we met with our doctor he was very understanding. He was friendly, understanding and helpful. Beyond that, he had an English accent. Very cool! He assured us more that everything was progressing fine. Tomorrow, we go back to the doctor and find out if we’re having a boy or a girl. Personally, I’m hoping for a girl.