When an expecting mom went for her 17-week pregnancy checkup by herself, she thought she would surprise her husband with the gender of their baby. However, after finding out she was expecting a girl, she was blindsided by an additional reveal: Her baby had spina bifida. Nickell Thomas, whose eldest child is a boy, recently shared with the Spina Bifida Association (SBA) about her journey of raising her now 8-year-old daughter, Taylor. Thomas wrote that the ultrasound took over an hour, and she actually fell asleep. By the end of the appointment, she found out she was expecting a baby girl. “I was super excited,” she wrote. “My grandmother had passed away earlier that year and we said we’re going to name our baby after her if it was a girl.” To reveal the gender to her husband she bought an “It’s a girl” card and for her mother an “It’s a girl” balloon. When Thomas …