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Friday, January 29, 2010

January 12, 2010, Week 7: 1 Body, 2 Heartbeats

Today is the BIG DAY (well the first of many big days in our child’s life). We had our first ultrasound today! This is definitely indescribable; any Mom who has experienced this can tell you that there is nothing like seeing your baby’s heartbeat for the first time. From this moment on, I just felt like my number one priority was to make sure this little baby was safe and happy and growing inside me. All the day-to-day minutia that I usually worry about just seemed so insignificant compared to the Mount Everest-like 33 weeks of pregnancy that were still to come. Reading some of those baby books can really make you anxious and apprehensive; some of them make it sound like almost everything you come in contact with on a day to day basis can be potentially harmful to your baby…talk about cause for worry! But today was a happy day, I had no worries at all as I saw that little heartbeat flutter at nearly 180 beats per minute; and of course, I cried (again). At this point, all of our family knew the news but this level of excitement was making it impossible to keep it from friends!
So now it was time to talk to the doctor about important decisions…so many questions: where do I want to deliver? When do I want to have chromosomal abnormality testing done? What kind of prenatal vitamin did I want? And Oh, by the way, we need about twelve vials of blood from you....

Weekly Womb Workings: The baby is the size of a small bean, measuring in at approximately 9 to 11 millimeters, crown to rump. Dark spots, mark the early formation of the eyes. Pits indicate the formation of nostrils and ears. His brain is developing rapidly, and limbs and facial characteristics are now forming. The heart now has a right and left chamber. The esophagus and trachea are changing and differentiating into separate tubes, with lungs positioned on either side.

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