All along I have thought this baby was a boy. After hearing the heartbeat, I was convinced… even the Chinese Calendar and multiple facebook quizzes said “boy.”
Steve has always thought this baby is a girl.
Over the weekend, I read in my bible (What to Expect When You’re Expecting) a few interesting points about determining the sex.
*It’s more likely to be a BOY if you find yourself eating like a teenage boy = constant trips to the kitchen.
*It’s more likely to be a GIRL if you find yourself to be very forgetful; extreme “pregnancy brain.”
Based on these two points, I now think it’s a girl. I don’t eat a lot (probably not enough, even) and I forget the simplest of things. I forget how to spell easy words, I forget what I was about to do, I forget the right word to describe something. It’s embarrassing, really. But it gives Steve something to laugh about 
The poll hasn’t had much activity lately so I’m taking it down (check for a new one!).. here are the results of what YOU think the baby is!
53% (18 votes) : BOY
35% (12 votes) : GIRL
12% (4 votes) : TWINS
I think it’s safe to say that those who voted twin already lose. Sorry.
And when will we find out?? I just made my appointment for my ultrasound!!! I’ll have one more appointment (check-up) here in Iowa on July 6th and then my ultrasound will be in Rockford on July 27th!!! 9am. We’re moving home that previous weekend with the U-Haul so I guess Steve will need to take Monday off work so he can be with me when we find out what it is!! Ahhhhhhhhh I can hardly wait!!!
Toddler Dies After Sudden Coma In NY ER
The Filipino Express January 17, 1999
Filipino Express, The 01-17-1999 TODDLER DIES AFTER SUDDEN COMA IN NY ER
Raymond LaMalva, 16 months old, was declared brain dead on the 31st of December, seven days after his parents took him to the St. John’s Hospital Emergency Room. website chase banking online
“This is a nightmare, a perfect nightmare,” said the father, Mark LaMalva, 38„ a financial consultant with Josephthal and Company. His wife and Raymond’s mother, Amelita Agulto, 40, is from the Philippines and works at the Letters of Credit, International Division of Chase Banking. Although she has three children by a previous marriage, Raymond is the LaMalva’s only child.
“You take a child in for routine CAT Scan,” LaMalva lamented. “And you leave with him brain dead. He was officially declared dead on New Year’s Eve, but we lost him seven days before. When he was transferred from St. John’s to Schneider’s Children’s Hospital, he was already gone. We could feel it.”
The Public Relations office of the Catholic Medical Centers with which St. John’s is affiliated issued a statement saying they were “constrained from public discussion of Raymond’s condition and treatment because this matter is under investigation by us and by the State Department of Health.” The statement was dated Dec. 30, 1998.
LaMalva and Amelita took Raymond to St. John’s ER on Dec. 22, at around 11 p.m., on the advise of the boy’s pediatrician when he twice threw up that day. The previous day, Dec. 21, Raymond had fallen off a toy rubber duck with wheels and hanged his head.
“The duck is barely six inches off the floor,” said the father. “And the floor is carpeted.”
At St. John’s Raymond was triaged level II — level IV being the most urgent and critical. His triage assessment showed he was alert and awake. He and his parents therefore had to wait.
The hospital timeline showed that Raymond’s treatment started at 1:15 a.m., when he was given an IV and blood was drawn for testing. By 2 a.m., the doctor took him for the CAT scan. By 2:10 a.m., he was unresponsive on the scanning table, with no blood pressure. The Code was called then and CPR started. At 2:40 a.m., a CAT scan was taken and the subsequent radiology report said “this is a normal non-contrast CT scan in a 16 month old child.” But by dawn, Raymond was in a coma.
According to LaMalva, this recounting of Raymond’s last hours did not include the administration of an anesthetic, Ketamine, before his son was taken to radiology. Ketamine carries a warning about respiratory depression.
Baby Agulto, Raymond’s aunt, who herself works in a hospital’s risk management division, said that with “conscious sedation, the patient is usually attached to monitoring equipment.” website chase banking online
Why Raymond wasn’t was among the questions his parents raised. They also wondered why mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was not performed on the child. But most of all, as they spent the holidays watching their child slide towards death, they asked, over and over again, how it could be that within hours of taking an active child to a hospital, he was in a coma, to all purposes brain dead. St. John’s records showed that “head trauma” and “respective arrest” were the final diagnoses given.
Raymond was buried on Jan. 4, following an autopsy by the Medical Examiner’s Office.
“My wife is devastated,” said LaMalva. “She and Raymond were very close. She’s traumatized and will be scarred for life.”
For both of them it was a “nightmare.” LaMalva confessed to “a tremendous sense of loss.” No one from St. John’s, he said, had bothered to contact them to offer any condolence or apology or “just say they’re sorry.” ********************************************************
Ethnic NewsWatch SoftLine Information, Inc., Stamford, CT
I told you!
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you mean I’m going to have to wait for a second Little Dickey??
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I don’t know.…I didn’t eat a lot either (probably just the same) and I turned into a COMPLETE idiot!! My vocabulary greatly reduced and I forgot EVERYTHING!!
And Cade is definitely no girl! haha
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hahaha, that’s true, Cade is no girl! (i do still think it’s a boy).. one month until we find out!
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