Reality setting in

Well I am finally posting like I have been telling Liz that I would. I have never had a blog so I kept telling her I was unsure how to start. Well after seeing the last ultrasound and hearing the heartbeat of our child I was inspired.

Even though the ultrasound was only a few weeks after the first one Liz had, the baby had grown so much and now it looks more like a baby. When the woman first started the ultrasound the baby was flipping and moving around like crazy and that was so exciting for me. It is still sinking in that Liz and I are going to be parents soon and I am excited for times that it becomes more real for me, and this last ultrasound was one of them. When Liz started to have some symptoms it started to be more real, but there is something about watching the ultrasound that is completely different. I have always wanted to be a Dad and looking at that ultrasound and seeing our child is something that I still am comprehending.

As we start to tell more people that also makes it seem more real to me and probably the reason that I have been more anxious to tell people than Liz has been. I have told a couple coworkers and one of them reacted in such a super excited way that it really made my day.

Some people have told me that it won't really sink in that we are parents till the day the baby is born. Until then I look forward to all the small and large events that will help me to realize that I am going to be a Dad, and I cannot wait.

Hello!

So apparently one of the drawbacks to having a blog that only one person knows about is it means you will probably forget you have it and thus, forget to update. 

But my lack of updating was also partly due to the fact that up until about weeks 8 and 9, I really had very little pregnancy symptoms and had not yet been to the doctor, and so a part of me definitely wanted to play it safe after the initial excitement faded.  (Of course once the food aversions, nausea, and constipation kicked in, I felt relieved but also pretty silly for wishing for symptoms.)  Our first appointment was three weeks ago and despite what the receptionist told me on the phone, my doctor did do an ultrasound.  After measuring, I came out to be exactly 9 weeks pregnant, which was the same as counting from LMP.  We got to see (but not hear) the heartbeat which was really exciting.  Even though most people wait until 12 weeks to start telling people about the pregnancy, we read that once you see a heartbeat the risk of miscarriage goes way down, and so we started telling some of our friends.  He still set up an appointment for me to have an ultrasound in radiology, since those tend to be more high-tech than the one he used.

I had that appointment a couple days ago, and this time when the ultrasound tech measured she put me a few days later than before, now with an EDD of 11/6 instead of 11/3.  When I asked which date was more accurate, she said hers was - not only are the machines more high-tech, but she's been doing ultrasounds longer than my doctor has been alive!  This time we got to hear the heartbeat as well as see it - it was 154 beats per minute which is exactly where it should be at this point. 

So stay tuned and maybe eventually I will be able to get Paul-John to follow through and actually post one of these days like he keeps saying he will!