At first I was a little taken back by this astonishing technology but also by the fact my baby kind of looked like a ball of fire or a very crisp lasagna. Then he focused and we saw this tiny little human just chilling out with their arms tucked behind his head, his legs kicking about in flicking motions. His eyes tightly shut. 'boy or girl?' asked Paul our sonographer. Well it was quite clear that this little life was a boy. Everyone in the room chuckled has the sonographer pointed claiming that it was 'very noticeable'. The gender never mattered to me, but this life I was growing inside of me had been given more of an identity. I have never felt so overwhelmed and so in love with someone that's not even made it into the world yet. I was utterly in love with our little boy. We could call him by his name and not call him 'it' or 'baby' or 'bean'.  We was that one step closer to having this journey feel more like reality and less like some crazy dream. It was an indescribable feeling.

If you are in two minds about a gender scan I would highly recommend. It was such an intimate experience we got to share with family, being able to have family watch the scan happening and baby wriggling on screen.

I couldn't wait to race home and tell my parents using some cupcakes I'd purchased from Cupcake corner  in Leeds. Go check her page out, her cupcakes are gorgeous and she will also be doing my baby shower cupcakes! My parents were absolutely over the moon.

We announced to our friends using green smoke bombs that we had ordered as we didn't want the traditional blue and pink smoke bombs although they ended up looking blue! We are over the moon with how the photographs turned out!!