11 weeks 4 days. Heartbeat!

We heard it!

We went to my doctors appointment early Friday morning (11 weeks 2 days) and I was so nervous and anxious about something being wrong. I am so thankful that Tony has Fridays off and was able to come with me. Anyways I started to fill out paperwork and they called me to one of the back examination rooms. I sat down and in walks our Certified Physicians Assistant Dawn. She was very nice and I instantly felt comfortable with her. She started by asking about my family medical history and some genetic questions for Tony. Finally she told me to hop up on the table so we could listen for the heartbeat.

At first the heartbeat was nowhere to be found she went back and forth on my very, very low stomach and nothing. Then she started to press a little harder and another minute later we heard it! It was a little quieter than I thought it would be but it was strong and wonderful! Then she said the baby must have moved because she lost the sound. So she moved to the other side and there it was much easier to find this time and again just a strong little heartbeat. I joked with Tony that the baby didn't really move to the other side that was another baby over there. TWINS! Maybe... We will know for sure how many babies I am taking care of next Friday during the ultrasound.

After all the wonderful sounds of our baby she left the room while I undressed and got into a hospital gown for a pap smear. I really hate those but I was way over due and anything they need to do to make sure our baby is doing ok. I also got a flu shot and I had some more blood drawn (so she can test my sugar and make sure that I am not diabetic).

Here I am going to post the video of our babies heartbeat for all of you who want to experience it too!

10 weeks 1 day

Not much to report. Still getting sick nearly everyday. All of the books I have say that the morning sickness and nausea should go away after the first trimester. So I have about 2 to 3 more weeks.

Next Friday we go to heart the heartbeat. I am going to take videos of all of these important visits and I'll probably post them I'm my blog. I am officially through a fourth of my pregnancy and other than the morning sickness everything had been going well.

I can even start to feel where the baby is growing. Just below my stomach I can feel the hardened uterus and it is really starting to hit me that there is a little person in there. I had Tony feel too and I think that has made things more real for him as well.

Sometimes I feel like I am going through this alone. None of my friends have been pregnant and I don't think Tony knows what to say a lot of the time. I'm hoping that my mom finds some time to chat with me more. It seems I'm always the one to call her and most of the time she's busy.

Well off to have some breakfast.

8 weeks 1 day. Doctors appointments

I finally found a hospital that I want to go to I will be seeing an OB at the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin. It is about 10 to 15 minutes from my house which is very convenient for the day I am in labor. They have so many OB/GYN's to choose from and they were able to get me in right away. I called Monday and already this Friday I am going in for blood work and urine samples. October 26th which is also a Friday I am going in to meet with Dawn on of the nurses for a routine checkup and listening to the heartbeat for the first time. Then on Friday November 2nd Tony and I are going in for our first ultrasound.

I am so excited for the ultrasound and heartbeat appointments. I have been feeling my pregnancy for a while now and I think these appointments will give Tony something to make everything feel a little more real to him.  Once he can hear and see our baby I think he will definitely feel more involved. I am also thrilled to be going to a doctor because I need some sort of nausea medication. My morning sickness is getting worse to the point where I threw up so hard there was a little blood at the end. I'm not too worried about that though. I looked up possible causes of that on the internet and everything I could find says that once I threw up all of the acid that was in my stomach, there was nothing left to protect it so my raw stomach bled a little bit towards the end. I do know for sure that I am sick of being sick it hurts to throw up my body uses so much force that I am exhausted by the time I am done.

Anyway I have also been working on our baby registry. This is where being a nanny for several babies in the past has prepared me for what we will need. If anyone out there has any suggestions for things they think I should add to the registry here is a link. http://www.target.com/RegistryGiftGiverCmd?isPreview=false&status=completePageLink&listId=QiszL2jxMwIyOiVewok92Q&registryType=BB&cumulativeTime=-1&isAjax=false&noOfPings=