It's Alive!

Baby's Heartbeat - 170 BPM!

Baby measures at 7 wks 5 days

Our first appointment post pregnancy with Dr. Spoon was a SUCCESS!!!! Not only did we get to see the baby (it may look like a blob to you on screen, but to us, it is a fully functioning healthy baby :) but we got to hear the heartbeat!!!! I thought that I was over eight weeks but Dr. Spoon put us at seven weeks, five days. It was hard for me to stop cracking up once he put the ten inch condom on top of the sonogram probe and then it was hard for me to stop crying once we heard that woosh woosh that was the baby's heart beat - 170 beats per minute...looks like we have a future marathon runner in the works!!! Dr. Spoon was really proud of the heartbeat and said that such a strong one so early on is a great sign!!!

So...what's going on with the baby this week? Well, the big news is that hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs (although right now those arms and legs look more like stumps!) and the baby is technically still an embryo...tail and all! Although I try to make Mike believe the baby may be born with the tail, in reality, it will become the baby's tailbone. The baby is growing so fast that if he kept growing at this rate outside of the womb, he would be 15 feet tall by the time he is one month old!!! But for now, he is content growing inside and is about the size of a blueberry.