Late post @ 10 week appointment

I realized I have been completely remiss in telling you about my ten week appointment. This was by far the coolest ultrasound ever as my little bambino was moving! Besides wiggling all around his little uterus playground, his arms were waving too! My breath would catch every time the nurse would release the freeze frame and go back to the live feed. It was the most unbelievable thing to witness this going on inside of me.

Another thing that amazed us was that our little one is no longer looking like a shrimp! There is actually an identifiable head, body, arms, and legs. It actually looked liked a baby. I have a huge fat grin about that.

The final part that was incredibly cool was simply hearing the heartbeat for the first time. The sound of the dub-dub was recorded by my industrious husband with his iphone. He did some quick maneuvering to get it to not interfere with the monitor and presto, we had something to share with my parents who arrived later that day. My mom and dad were incredibly cute hearing it and wanted it forwarded to them so they could listen to it at their leisure. My dad played it first thing when he woke up the next morning. How sweet is that?

Alas, I have no pictures to share as the ones they gave us were crap and incredibly dark. However, everything is moving along. With this visit, I officially was released from monitoring from the RE's office. This means no more shots, no more disgusting pills to insert or swallow...and, my husband and I are now clear for a little "coloring" although we are way too afraid to do so! 

xoxo

Pumpkin

I have one little pumpkin with a beautiful flickering heartbeat!

And up close here it is again!

Little pumpkin is measuring right on time at 6 week 4 daysish with an estimated due day of Oct 31st or Nov 1st!

Although I was suppose to have my eight week full physical done in two weeks, they went ahead and did it today. I started off with a sky high blood pressure as normal and had to wait again to do it a few minutes later when it returned to a normal range. Then I had to strip and get poked and prodded all over including ears, mouth, nose, lungs, breast exam, in addition to a whole infectious disease panel. Hmm, haven't I already done these? Yeah.

Of course I broke out in a sweat and then felt woozy sitting up on the table...then nauseous. The midwife who will be doing all of my ultrasounds in the OB clinic is completely sweet grey haired lady who is a former colonel and also a physician's assistant. She suggested B6 three times a day to help with the nausea which I'm hoping will help return me to my former non-lumpish self.

xoxo