Heartbeat!

Yaaaay! We got to see the heartbeat today and it was the most amazing sight ever!

It's so amazing to think that there is a little baby in there with a beating heart. At 116 beats per minute. Inside my body. In my uterus. Wow.

They printed out about a billion copies for us to take home - and here's my attempt to take a picture of one of them!



You can see the sac and then within the sac you can see the baby (blob on the left) and the yolk sac (the circle-ish type thing connected to the baby's right side). The yolk sac will eventually turn into the placenta around 10 weeks!

I was so incredibly nervous going into this session that the minute we saw it and they said it's measuring right on track, I almost lost it. I started to tear up. I still can't get over it. And the look on my husband's face - I wish we could have gotten all this on tape!

We go back again next week and we will most likely hear it then. If not, then definitely at my graduation ultrasound. Can't wait!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

6w 2d Pregnant!

I hope I don't jinx myself, but so far, I'm feeling pretty ok! I have had some very minor heart burn and I'm tired and bouts of emotional-ness (is that a word?). Not exhausted, but still pretty tired. No vomiting yet and only some very minor nausea, but if I eat something (granola bar, orange, jolly rancher), it seems to help. Still pretty thirsty, and off and on extreme hunger, and some cramping. Not too bloated, no spotting as of yet (phew!) and the boobs haven't really changed much and don't hurt yet.

It sometimes makes me wonder if anything is still going on in there, but then I remind myself - it's not the same for everyone - and I remember the symptoms I do have and consider myself extremely lucky.

And now, time for another round of c&p of what's going on in there. ;-)

http://www.thebump.com/:


Growing like crazy, baby is starting to sprout eyes, ears, nose, cheeks and chin. Those little hands and feet- still webbed like paddles- might wiggle by week's end, the heart is beating (almost twice as fast as yours!), and blood is starting to circulate.


http://www.babycenter.com/:

How your baby's growing: This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil bean.See what's going on in your uterus this week.

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Both of these sites say the baby is 0.25 inches long, another says 0.75 - so who knows. But it's still prettty cool to know everything that's going on in there!