First Ultrasound!!!

It's a BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (with a heartbeat)

(In the picture, you will see a black circle...that is the yolk sac where the baby will hang out. Inside the black circle is the baby...the picture on paper is a bit clearer....but essentially that is the baby...I couldn't begin to tell where everything else is as you saw in my last post everything is still growing right now). :)

Haha....yes, we have one little miracle in there. The ultrasound tech looked around for a second one....but low and behold we will have one bundle of joy in November. We couldn't be more excited! We had a feeling it was one and honestly when she showed us the heart flutter I forgot to even look to see if there was a second one...I just thought it was the coolest thing ever!!!

So the baby kind of looks like a little shrimp. The baby is measuring at 4.7mm long...right on target for 6 weeks, one day (give or take a day....which puts us at Nov. 1st...our due date).

She turned the screen so John and I could see and right away I saw the heart. It is very small, but kind of glows and is beating fast! The tech said that the heartbeat was about 120bpm (beats per minute)...which is practically perfect! The range is usually between 90-160, so we're looking good! She said the heartbeat will probably get faster in the coming weeks.

Oh it was just so cool. I shed a tear as she was getting all other kinds of measurements, just thinking about how real it is all becoming. When you don't show and don't have strong symptoms like morning sickness, you just wonder constantly....and me especially since it's been such a long wait already; I am so paranoid. But now that we've seen the heartbeat we can see that things are moving along just fabulously! I just want to have an ultrasound machine at home and watch the baby grow all the time!!! There is so much that happens every week...at least the Internet has all kinds of good information out there to tell me each week what is happening.

Oh yay!!!!