February 2010

                It was getting close to my first appointment with my midwife. I was working almost every day, but I was working short hours. I was getting excited about my doctor’s appointment because I was going to get an ultrasound. I wanted to see my little angel and I wanted to know if everything was okay. I spend my days working and counting down the days until February 19^th.

                Finally the day arrived. I woke up that morning very excited. I got ready and headed to my doctor’s appointment. When I arrived a nurse came out and took me to a room. She told me that I was going to have to urinate in a cup to check some levels and that she needed to draw some blood for a few tests. I consented to all the testing. After about 5 vials of blood and a now empty bladder I went to meet with the midwife. Me, my fiancé and my giant bottle of water were waiting quietly in the room. Finally she came and in asked me a few questions to see how I was feeling. She told me my urine test came back good. She pulled out this little box and she said that it was for listening to the heartbeat. She said that we may not hear anything because the baby I probably still too small. After a few minutes of searching she found nothing. I felt my anxiety building. She smiled and said” let’s do an ultrasound”. Those were just the words I wanted to hear. We headed over to the room and I got ready to see my baby.

                It didn’t take long and the first thing I heard was this very fast heartbeat. I looked up at the monitor and say this beautiful little life growing inside of me. The midwife smile and said,” say hello to your baby. It looks perfect. I see everything is where it should be.” We studied that picture for a few minutes and we enjoyed listening to that rapid heartbeat. It was the best thing that I ever experienced.  After the ultrasound I got all cleaned up and we returned to her office. She handed us 2 pictures of our little ones ultrasound. She looked at her calendar and told us to return March 31 for our 20 week ultrasound. This is when we will find out what we were going to have. We returned home and continued with our normal routine for the rest of the month.