The Baby Has A Strong Heartbeat!!!

I had a spontaneous visit to see the doctor today that turned out very well. I was nervous because I had some spotting and so Dr. C said, "come on in and we'll take a look."

I guess at my "advanced maternal age" (I chuckle whenever I hear this phrase because it is such an obvious substitute for "because you are older.") they aren't afraid to use the sonogram machine, which is what they did again today.

If you look at the picture above the circle to the left is the head and the circle to the right is the torso. You can't see it on this scan, but on the original they showed me where the arms and legs are starting to grow!

So they confirmed that everything looks great with the baby and I got to hear the heartbeat for the first time, which was an amazing experience! The little heart is beating 159 times a minute and they described it as "strong". To me it sounded like the little one was running around in there.

At this point Storm would say that this is because he/she is taking after me that way. He's already giving the baby credit for the increased size of the uterus. "Well, the baby must have said 'hey, there's not enough room for me in here' and went and got some tools and started hammering away at the walls of the uterus to make some more space," was his theory.

Anyway, speaking of that, the person who did do the sonogram today did say that the uterus does look a little bit long and narrow and not quite the "perfectly round" description from a week ago. I guess this could be the camera angle, or things shifting and changing in there. Dr. C did say that he is going to proceed through my pregnancy taking any and all necessary precautions.

I was supposed to go in for a checkup on 10/1, but they did everything they did today that they would have done then, so I will see Dr. C again on 10/23. Before that I will be going in for a nuchal translucency test on 10/18.

Oh, and my weight gain so far is 2 pounds. Very normal/acceptable for the 9 week mark.