Monday, November 2, 2009

8 weeks!!

So I went and got my first ultrasound today! It was so fun and so cool to see the little flutter of our baby's heart! Our baby is 7 weeks 5 days and is 1.48 centimeters long (the size of a kidney bean) and my due date is June 16th, 2010. The nurse doing the ultrasound came in and was getting things ready and as she's doing that she's telling us how she's never used that machine before and she didn't really know how to work it. Needless to say she was NOT building much confidence haha everything ended up being fine though and she was able to find the baby and the heartbeat. She didn't know how to print out the picture so when Dr. Meridith came in I got a second ultrasound so he could print it out which was really fun and exciting! Right now our baby has little arms and legs and little paddles for hands and feet, indentations where the eyes, nose, and ears will be, and the upper lip is developing. My mother-in-law was so sweet and sent me this necklace and said to let her know when the baby gets as big as the necklace, which he's about half that size. Here are the 3 pictures from the ultrasound I know its not much and that its hard to tell what everything is but the little dark spot is the amniotic fluid, and the thing in the middle is the baby! On the left is the head and the right is the bum! You can't see it but in the first ultrasound you could see the yolk sac perfectly which is what supplies the baby with nutrients during the pregnancy and its a perfect little ball which was even smaller than the actual baby!!