10/6/04 - Wave To Mom In The Camera!

Today was our first ultrasound! Dave and I got off work early and met at home so we could drive to the doctor together. He distracted himself with an ePregnancy magazine article about babies and cats during my exam (we don't want to get rid of our pets unless we have to). But the minute the image of that little heartbeat hit the screen, we were both engrossed. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen, that little heart fluttering like a hummingbird. I hear the baby's heart rate at this stage is 160 beats per minute. I really couldn't see anything else because the baby is too small, but it still made everything seem so much more real to me. I hope my friends will patiently let me bore them with photos of an unrecognizable static blob on a black background. I'll try not to become one of those dreaded mothers who shows wallet-sized photos of her kids to strangers at the airport. I'm a little disappointed to discover that I'm only seven weeks along, which is where they thought I was two weeks ago. That means I have a little longer to go before the nausea clears up. Oh, well. At least I have a due date now: May 22nd. I'm telling work a week sooner (so I can quit earlier), and my friends a week later (so I can avoid the perpetual "have you had it yet?" if the baby runs a little late). I hope it will be a May delivery so it will be less hot, and the baby will have a birthday during the school year when friends are around. A more selfish reason is so I have an excuse to wear their birthstone, which would be emerald, one of my favorite colored stones.