The answer.

I hear my name.  Matt still isn't there.
The woman says to me "are you waiting for someone?"
"Yes, I'm waiting for my husband".
"Well come on back, we'll tell the front desk to send him back when he gets here."

We make our way back to the ultrasound room.  She asks me how my bladder is feeling - I tell her it could possibly rupture at any point.  She tells me to go pee, she doesn't need it that full.  She has me lay on the little table/chair thingy, and says she'll do some measurements before Matt gets there.  It's 9:58.  She asks if we want to know the gender...I cringe a little and say that we're not sure, but if she didn't mind writing it down for us, I brought a piece of paper and an envelope.  She's game.  She tells me she's had all sorts of requests.  Call a bakery and tell them, mail an envelope to a new address where the couple is moving to so they'll have fun mail...etc.  If only I were that clever.  It's now 10:06.  Still no Matt.  She says she'll call the front desk when we hear a light knocking on the door.  It's Matt.  Good lord, I thought he was going to miss it.

She seemingly goes through all the standard checks of the baby, measuring here and there.  Telling us everything.  Then she says, "ok, I'm going to look now, if you don't want to know close your eyes and turn your head."  I look at Matt and say "Are you going to look?".  He shakes his head.  She says "Hold on, just a second longer - I want to take a picture."  She gives us the all clear and we can look back.

We finish up the ultrasound.  The placenta is "anterior", which apparently means on the outside of my belly.  So she tells me that lots of kicks and movements are probably absorbed by the placenta, and so don't be alarmed if I go through some spells of not feeling the baby.  She finished up and lets me pee again.  I come out and go to get her the piece of paper, and she says that unless I have something special that I want it written in, she has a cute card she'd like to give us.  I think it's sweet.

She hands the card to me, and we walk out.  I hand it to Matt in the waiting room, and tell him I can't be trusted.  I tell him he can open it in the car and call me if he wants.  He says he wants to wait for Miss Muffet to open it, and that we should do it together as a family.  I go see the doctor, she says everything is perfect.  Baby is measuring exactly to the date, everything looks good.

We finally get home that night, Matt arrives with the envelope, we tell Lauren that we have a surprise...she thinks it's candy.  We help her rip it open.

We see the outside of the card, I say, "It's pink!"  Matt says, "what does it say on the inside?"  The inside contains a picture and says "Congratulations, it's a girl!"  I am stunned.  But I am very happy that my little girl will have a sister!