I've stopped having morning sickness so Amen to that. There was what seemed like a two week period in which all I could tolerate was pizza, at that point celery tasted like weeds and the smell of beef really made me want to puke. But now that has passed, in fact three nights ago I really wanted to eat chicken fried steak and I had Tom driving all over South Eastern Connecticut looking for a place that had it. We found a place but instead of serving it with cream gravy they served it with brown gravy. Now anytime I eat anything I feel like its filling up my esophagus and I get very burpy. I can belch like a teenage boy. Lately I've been making potato and egg taquitos on the weekends and surprisingly I haven't gained any weight yet which I'm not worried about since I was 25 pounds above what I would like to be before I got pregnant. No I'm not going to reveal how much I weigh.
Back in mind December we had our first sonogram. Tom accompanied me. I felt a mixture of excitement and nervousness to see the baby for the first time. I was concerned about the possibility of an an ectopic pregnancy, thrilled to actually see the little creture and excited, and at the same time terrified that there could be multiple critters in there. So after the slightly awkward inserting of the probe (it was a vaginal ultrasound) we immediately heard the heart beat, ticking away at a break neck speed. My breath caught in my throat and tears swelled in my eyes, it was amazing and profound even. Then we could make out the image. The critter didn't look like much just a unidentifiable blob, but you could definitely see the tiny heart beating away like crazy. There was only one and Dr Small assured me it was in the proper location. The he looked around inside there and showed me one of my ovaries but for some odd reason he couldn't find the other one. I hoped it was just hiding. He took measurements of the heartbeat and size and then printed out some pictures for us.
In late January we were scheduled to do another sonogram, there was a special measurement to be taken called nuchal translucency so we were directed to a specialist. We had to drive all the way out to Narraganset about an hour away. Again the mixed feelings were swelling, concern there will be something wrong and excitement to see the baby again. This time it was a non vaginal ultrasound. Did you know they now warm the gel? Right away I could make out what looked like a little skeleton, I felt the tears again and then the weirdest thing happened, I immediately started laughing and the image was lost. I stopped laughing and he tried again and there it was floating in a black void you could see the great big baby head
(I hope I'm not in trouble) and the baby body which is almost the same size as the head.
Then the little critter jumped (for lack of a better word) I started to laugh again. I said maybe I better not look because I'll just keep laughing but the Sonographer, Dr Hill (I'm not even sure he's a Doctor) said I would miss all the good stuff. He showed us the nasal bone,
measured the length,
and heart beat,
took a close up view of one of the hands showing us the four fingers and thumb bone
and finally he took the special measurement we were there for (oddly he didn't give us a photo of that). All the while the little critter keept jumping around in there. I asked if it had the hiccups and he said no they just like rhythmic movement. I also asked to see my ovaries just to make sure I had two and he had no problem locating them. He said all looked normal so that was promising, but more importantly our baby already has rhythm.
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