24-6-2008 - Baby\'s First Pictures! 04/24/08 (8w5d)

My mood while writing this blog: Ok

So we got our first ultrasound done this morning. I have been SO nervous and paranoid about it all.and I'm SO glad that my doctor ok'd the ultrasound. With my last pregnancy I didn't get one until 18 weeks. How I went that far without freaking out and just ASSUMING that there really was a baby in there is beyond me! I was mentally prepared to be told that there was no baby or that the baby had died/stopped developing. I still FEEL pregnant, but I was just scared that I'd get bad news,especially since I'd been so sick so early on.

I got NO sleep last night - my stomach was in knots (dinner just wasn't sitting right) and I wasn't tired at all. I just laid there forever staring at the wall and trying to get comfortable. Of course an hour before the alarm went off I drifted off into a deep sleep, making it REALLY hard to get up!

So we got up and I drowned myself in water so they could see the baby and off we went. As soon as she put the wand on there I saw the little blob! I was glad to see a baby in there. Then she positioned it and we saw the heart beating at 171. She checked my entire uterus, my ovaries and everything else in there and all was fine! We even saw the little guy floating around and moving his tiny arms/legs a little bit! I almost asked her (jokingly) if she thought it was a boy/girl, but I knew she wouldn't think it was a joke, so it wasn't worth it. The great news is that everything seems to be fine, the baby's right on track (measured one DAY early - insignificant) and s/he's alive and kickin in there! We know that we have no chromosomal markers for anything bad and our last baby was perfectly healthy, so this one should go all the way (as long as I stay healthy)! Want to see the little blobby? Here you go: