I Have a Baby in Me!!

We had our second u/s this morning. I was so incredibly nervous before hand. I was so sure we weren't going to get good news. I guess I've just gotten used to getting bad news that I assume it will happen every time. But the app could not have gone better! Such a relief! I'm so happy I feel like crying!

My doctor started out with the usual "how do you feel" stuff. He said it's a very good sign I've been having ms since I really didn't have it last time. He did an internal exam and said my ute felt excellent! Huge sigh of relief right there. Then, we saw the tech who did the u/s (she's always so nice and cheery!). Right away we saw our LO with a little flicking HB. S/he is measuring 8w1d, which going by my O date is dead on. Our official EDD is 7/8/12, which is what I thought, but it's nice to have the conformation. LO is 1.7cm long and has a heart rate of 174!! My baby has a HB!!



Our next app will be the NT scan. I'll be 12w on Christmas day and of corse my doctor is going to be out of town that week, so we have to wait until Janurary 4 when I'll be 13w3d. We were planning on announcing on New Years at midnight, but it looks like that will have to wait now. I'm just not comfortable announcing until after the scan. It's a small inconvenience, though! I'm just happy that there's a little peanut in me! We were only going to see KJ's dad and family at New Years, so we were going to have to make the rounds again to his mom's and my family anyways. A little disappointing, but certainly not the end of the world. I just hope KJ doesn't try to talk me into announcing anyways...



Before our app, all I could think was that I was in the exact same spot I was in last year at this time. I was ~8w and we went in the Monday after Thanksgiving for an u/s (our first) and found out our LO wasn't growing properly. S/he only measured 6w and by the time we went back to check on growth, our LO was gone. There are so many similarities on the time line with my current pg and last years, it's so hard not to compare. One thing that isn't similar, though, is that I have a, so far, healthy 8w baby with a HB. Even though I was pg for longer with the last, this is the most actually pg I've ever been. Milestone!!

It seems so long until our next app! I have to wait all the way til next year. One good thing, though, is that the holidays will be much better this year than last. I have to admit, I was decorating the house for Christmas this weekend and I couldn't help but think about how broken hearted I was when I put all of those decorations away last January. This has been a hard year all around, with the MC that never ended and both KJ and I lossing a grandfather. 2012 will be much better, I just know it! A year of new beginnings!

This was me on Sunday: 2 months!! (We're fall themed for November, if you couldn't tell!)

Lots of Love,
KJsbabe