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“Not traditional,” I suggest instead as I turn to the doctor “It’s just… I sort of iined it would be via an ultrasound and Rachel and I would be looking at the screen, not able to even understand e’re looking at, and then you will point at a spot on the screen and say so like, ‘Look… it’s a penis’ And then I’ll yell ‘yee-haw,’ and Rachel will be like, ‘I told you so,’ and—”

Rachel starts laughing and claps ender until the next visit with an ultrasound”

Dr Anchors chuckles as he dries his hands “I’ll note in the file not to call you with results, and believe it or not, you’re not the first parents who have requested to find out via ultrasound”

“It’s a plan,” Rachel says with a smile

Dr Anchors reaches his hand out, shakes Rachel’s, and then mine He and the nurse clear out of the room, and Rachel hops off the table

I reach over to a chair in the corner and pick up her clothes As I hand them to her, I ask, “How did that really feel?”

As Rachel shrugs on her jeans, she says, “It felt weird The needle burned at first, then I felt a little cra the fluid out”

She stands up straight to button and zip her jeans “It hurt a hell of a lotshot”

“I thought I was going to pass out there for a moment,” I admit sheepishly “I don’t kno you were so calm”

I expect Rachel to laugh at ood and proper

Instead, she steps intoby my side That’s why it didn’t bother me that much”

Jesus Sos this woman says make me want to believe in all kinds of potential for our future

Makesif Rachel were to ever let loose and open herself up