1st Ultrasound

Yesterday was my 1st Ultrasound! How very exciting!!! Chris and I went to the doctor and were able to experience the new events of being parents. The baby is about the size of a peanut right now. I'm 8 weeks and 4 days. A week behind than what I had originally thought. The baby's brain and size is developing on track. It's heartbeat is perfect too! It was 167 bpm and it is suppose to be 166 bpm so we were good! We got pictures of course that we will post as soon as we get them scanned in.

Oddly enough this was the first time meeting my doctor. I had been going to one doctor who we found out late last year that he only delivers to a hospital which very far away from our home. So, through recommendations I switched doctors and clinics. I had an appointment with one doctor at this new clinic who was fine but not crazy about him. Then after finding out I was pregnant my first priority was scheduling an appointment in which Chris could come. As you know with Chris' work schedule and my work schedule now it's difficult to find a time that we can both attend. Because of this I took some other recommendations and switched to a doctor who wasn't only recommended, at this clinic that I like, delivers to the hospital closest to us, and had an appointment available for our times/dates. BOTTOM LINE: Chris and I both really liked our doctor. He was very personable and easy to talk to!

I had some blood drawn to determine some medical conditions about me and the baby. I expect to get that back in about a week. I'm hoping that I am negative for Cystic Fibrosis. If I am not a carrier then there is no possible way that our baby could have it. If I am a carrier Chris will be tested. If he's a carrier than there is a 1 in 4 chance that our baby will have it.

At week 12 which is June 4th I will go back for another check up and a series of tests to find out about Downs Syndrome. We decided we want to test just to have the knowledge. The problem with Down's testing is that there not definitive. Meaning they can say yes it looks like your baby might have Down's when in fact it ends up being completely normal. So, we decided to do this test and hopefully we will be very low risk patients due to our health and age.

I'll update you after my blood results come back!

But overall so far so GOOD!!

This primarily is showing it's heartbeat down at the bottom. The baby is that little rodent like thing in the middle of the black area.

The baby's on it's back. It's head is on the right. That black spot in it's head it the brain.

Similar to the first one the rodent like thing in the middle of the black circle below the BABY! is the baby.