First Sight

We had our first ultrasound today!—WOW, AMAZING, this is real---these are the words that came to my mind while seeing this. Although it was a little hard to make out anything at first (that blurry blob is my baby?) She then ended up doing the 3D vaginal ultrasound, which showed everything! Usually people show you their pictures afterwards and it looks like a blurb of nothing. Well the one I brought home looks perfect! I am sure it would look like a blurb of nothing to anyone else. We watched baby H shake its arms and legs, and the tech kept saying “it is dancing, it is dancing” You could see the heartbeat, that was amazing and definitely Brendan’s favorite part---WOW! Baby H(have to come up with another name, but this is it for now) measurements look great, the heartbeat was strong at 148bpm. It should be more than 100 and less than 200….perfect! This is all hitting now and is just so real, there really is something camping out in there! It is such a relief to have the first big checkup over and nothing out of the ordinary to report---another hurdle cleared!

The new due date is August 22, 2010(we have lots of August birthdays in the family: Brendans mom, sister, nephew, our godson, my Uncle Bill, and my cousin Casey & Wesley). 
I am still feeling great, have a heightened sense of smell, working out Mon-Fri(WHOA that has gotten tough) and ready for bed at 6pm every night. Get up to pee every 5 minutes, and am just today starting to feel bloated.

Of course, Brendan tells me I’m beautiful and is definitely not complaining about my new curves; specifically my, um…“enhanced bust-line,” shall we call it? The Girls are huge! In fact, all my new curves seem to get his stamp of approval. He has been ao amazing through this whole process.

We are on Cloud Nine in this house!!

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