10 Weeks

We went to our second regular doctor's appointment today and saw Dr. Thompson (my OBGYN). She had a medical student with her, but I didn't mind. The nurse (Teodora) came in and tried for about 5 minutes to hear a heartbeat through the doppler. She couldn't find anything. Kris and I were thinking the same thing-"Should we be worried, or happy that we get an ultrasound?" After Teodora told us that is wasn't uncommon not to hear anything this early, we felt better and got really excited that we got to see our baby for the third time!!

We waited a looooong 30 minutes before she rolled the familiar machine into the room. We saw Baby L wave and kick and move around a lot! It was amazing to see the little fingers, legs, feet, and even the tiny eyeballs (in person)!!

(Baby's head is on the left, bottom on the right, and arms on the sides by the head. It's feet are crossed in front of it's body. We asked to see the feet and Dr. Thompson made a turn of the wand and there they were. She didn't get a picture of them though - maybe next time.)

I told Dr. Thompson about my incident yesterday and she assured us that I was okay. I was scheduled to do the "everything" blood test today anyway which includes everything from HCG-Iron-HIV and a lot more in the middle: 7 vials full of blood. She was so informative and extremely nice to us and made us feel like we were her only patients today :)

We go back in 2 weeks for my first trimester screening which will be done with a blood test and ultrasound to assess our chances of having a baby with down syndrome and other genetic disorders. So that will be the 4th time get to see our little baby!! We can't wait :) Also Dr. Thompson said that sometimes they will try and "upsale" various services such as further testing along with gender testing through the blood that is 95% accurate at 12 weeks. She said that sometimes they offer it for free, but other times they don't and it ends up being a couple hundred dollars. We are hoping to continue to be blessed and maybe with Kris's personality, we can get offered a free test. None of my friends have been offered the free test, but it would be cool to find out the gender in 2 weeks!

Thanks to everyone for your prayers and thoughts! This is so amazing and we are just greatful to share this experience with you all!!

Belly Shots this week - don't make fun, I feel like a whale already!