13 Week 6 Day Ultrasound

So I know I just posted yesterday, but I had an unexpected ultrasound this morning. Well ok, so it wasn’t really unexpected, I had an Early Genetic Screening where I thought they were just going to look at something to do with measuring the back of the baby’s neck and take some blood (ouch that stupid finger prick really hurt!!!)

Well instead of just looking at the neck and taking measurements I got to watch the baby move a lot! The heartbeat at the beginning was 151 and he/she wasn’t moving a lot, the Ultrasound Tech said he/she must have been asleep. Then she (the tech) started pushing around with the scanner thingy and did the measurements, we got to see the baby I guess wake up and start really moving. He/She was kicking and punching and bucking itself around, I got to watch it flip itself over (got to see the back, spine, and butt) then he/she flipped back over and did a whole lot more kicking and punching. It was so strange to see all that movement and I couldn’t feel anything.

I have scanned the pictures in and you can see them below. He/She was in mid punch in two of these pictures.

Heartbeat

Well I haven’t written anything in a while, mainly because I HATE MORNING SICKNESS!!!!!! Gosh, I didn’t really realize how much feeling bad takes out of you. We are 13 weeks and 5 days today and finally the morning sickness is starting to get better. We had a doctor visit last week on Thursday and we got to hear the heartbeat!!!

It was amazing, When the doctor put the (I don’t know what to call it) thingy on my stomach we heard the heartbeat right away then it went static and was gone, heartbeat was 162 at this point, Dr Smith said the static was the baby moving, so he moved the thingy around a bunch more trying to find the baby but every time he got near it, there goes the static again he/she was running from the doctor. The doctor finally found him/her again and we heard the heart beating for a bit. He said it was 170 at this point, so Dr Smith averaged it at 165, which is very good. My baby is going to be like his daddy and not like doctors!

Ok so on to the next thing on my mind, Pickles taste so much better than they use to!!!! MMMMM Pickles are the best. No I am not having cravings I just really want pickles!!!