Monday, October 13, 2008

Our baby is a genius

Last week at my second doctor's appointment the doctor tried to hear the baby's heartbeat for the second time. At 9 weeks we weren't able to hear it, so I went back at 12 weeks specifically for that. Well the doctor got her little doppler out and tried to hear it...and we couldn't. So I got an ultrasound! I was so exicted that I was able to get one and see the baby. It was amazing. The baby was kicking it's legs and we could see its heart beating out of its chest. At the beginning though the doctor kept saying "hmmmm....hmmmmm..." and I was like why the heck are you saying that!?!? It scared me, but then we were able to actually see the baby on the screen and not just some blurry object like she was seeing at first. So after the ultrasound she said I really want to hear the heartbeat so let's just try one more time. After about 30 seconds we were able to hear it! So I was really proud of the baby for hiding the first time so that we could get an ultrasound and actually see that there is something inside me. Here is a picture of it:
It is sucking its thumb in this picture (you can see it better if you click on it).

3 comments:

Alexis said...

Isn't that freaking crazy/awesome that the little thing inside of you is already sucking its thumb!?!? I have a couple of ultrasound pics of Livy doing that - and now she does it in real life... weird.

Cierra said...

how fun that you already have a cute picture of the baby! i love it!

The Stradling Family said...

Congratulations. I love to get updates about you guys from your mom through my mom. I hope that you are feeling well. :)