1st OB apt today and 10 wk belly pic

So, Chris and I piled in our cars today and headed to the doctor's office.  We knew in advance that we should be hearing the heartbeat so there was some excitement and some apprehensiveness too.  After being thoroughly, examined my Dr brought out the doppler and began looking for lil spark's heartbeat.  She forewarned us that it might take a few minutes at this stage of gestation.  At first she was talking to us and looking....then she became more focused and started moving to different locations on my belly......she searched......and moved around some more......and then after 5 minutes of this she said, well I am not going to let you leave without hearing the heartbeat, lets get you an ultrasound.  At this point, I was gripping Chris' hand with death grip.  All those emotions from our "other" ultrasound kept creeping back into my heart.  I don't like ultrasounds, even though out of the 5 only one has been bad it was so bad and changed my life.  I just can't live through that again.

So, I threw on my clothes to then be lead to a waiting room with babies and largely pregnant women.  Chris did his best to distract me asking me random questions about work.  Thankfully, they called us back to the room in about 2 minutes that felt like 10 and I popped up on the table and the tech found the heartbeat right away.  That was a beautiful flicker and then the music to our ears' whoosh whoosh whoosh!!  171 beats per minute, and tears of pure joy!  She took a measurement and our lil spark is right on track exactly 10 weeks!!!  Thank the Lord for this baby.  So, here is lil spark again!  This time you can see the arm and a leg with a bent knee!!! I know it is just a blob, but it is so beautiful.  I wish the print out quality was as good as seeing it on the screen, much more detail there! 

 

Ok so here is sparkle from the outside, really should I be showing this early?