17 Week Bump.

This week I heard our new little baby bean's heart beat for the first time.

Despite feeling those first flutters of movement and seeing that baby-shaped blob on the ultra-sound screen, it was wooshing little heart beat that really hit home. Things finally seem real. There really is a tiny human slowly growing inside of me. Another son or possibly a daughter, a baby sibling for John.

Maybe it was because those flutters could have just been wind, or perhaps because for all I knew the sonographer was just playing back a video of someone else's scan, but now I know there's a real heart beat in there, I finally feel connected, empowered. I also feel girl. That's right, I'm now getting girl vibes.

Up until now I didn't really have any feeling of what the sex of this baby may be. With John, it was instant -- the second I saw that positive test, I just knew. We never found out with John but by a certain point in my pregnancy I started referring to my bump as "he". And we're undecided if we'll find out this time around but I'm leaning slightly more to asking the big question at our 20 week scan.

Now I just need to convince Iain it'll be better to find out the sex than it would be to keep another surprise.

Have you, or would you find out the sex of your baby? Care to take a guess of what gender I'm carrying?