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Bitty Jones' Heart Beat. [DOES NOT WORK YET--WE'RE TRYING TO GET THERE!]
Today we are 12 weeks and 6 days--one day shy of our second trimester! And we got to hear the little heartbeat! :) When Dr. Walker first put the little machine up to my stomach (note: not belly YET! Still stomach.) it took him a minute to move it around and find the little one, and then apparently him and Mike heard the heartbeat and I was sitting there anticipating when it was going to start. Little did I know that you don't hear the "ba bump, ba bump" I'm used to, but "woosh, woosh." With that knowledge, I was able to finally hear that there is in fact a live beat there! (Though when we listen to the recording now I still have to have Mike point out to me when it starts.)
I was worried I wouldn't be able to find our baby in an ultrasound picture (thanks to the trouble Rachel has in "Friends"), but I thought surely I would notice a heartbeat!
The pregnancy continues wonderfully--no sickness still, just a few slight headaches now and then (nothing a massage and a funny sitcom can't cure). My body has started to grow/make room for growth, but nothing noticeable on a day-to-day basis to passers-by. Of course, I obsess probably every day that I'm getting uncharacteristically fat (not due to baby), but it always subsides by the next morning (a big hip, hip, hooray for bloating!).
Next appointment comes in 3 weeks, but it will probably just be blood work so there may not be much to report, but belly growth may be popping any day now!
