10w3d--Visit to the doctor

Today was regularly scheduled follow-up....and everything went great!!! Dr. B first tried to find the heartrate by using the Doppler ultrasound microphone, but when she couldn't we were offered the option of either having an ultrasound or just following up regularly in 4 weeks. Of course we chose the ultrasound, can't pass up any opportunity to see the baby. The little peanut was wiggling around and the heart was thumping along at a solid 172 beats per minute. Features were a little more defined this time, we could see a definite head with a facial profile, as well as an arm that looked like it was waving at us. We go back again in four weeks, here's hoping for another ultrasound!

~Todd

10w2d

So, as of right now, baby McCarty is at 10weeks and 2days! So far everything has been going great. Some sickness here and there, but nothing that is too unmanageable or terrible. I have my freak out moments every now and then. The cramping and random sharp pains (which Todd assures me are normal) totally freak me out! We go for our third drs appt tomorrow. Which I am very excited about. I secretly (um well.. not so secretly) hope they will do another US, but Todd, always trying to prepare me :), says they will most likely listed to the heartbeat through the Doppler and not do another US. We had our 2nd US on the 9th of March. It was fantastic! Getting to hear the baby's heartbeat is such an indescribable feeling!! And it wasn't the " whoosing" sound so many people talk about when they say they heard their baby's heart beat... it was an actual thumping of the heart, plus we could see the heart beating on the monitor!! Todd had the BIGGEST smile on his face the entire time. I love how excited Todd has been! Plus he has been fantastic through my sickness, cravings, and...well... mood swings. BLESS HIS HEART.

~Krystal