Update on baby

Tony and I went to the doctor yesterday to meet our new ob and to get our first ultrasound. It was amazing. The picture below is sideways......why I don't know and I can't seem to get it to flip. As of yesterday, we are 8 weeks and 4 days. The heartbeat was about 170 beats a minute and we got to hear it. I cried and Tony was just trying to figure out if it sounded okay. The ultrasound technician said that everything looked completely normal. If the picture was rotated to the right it would be right side up but you can start to see little arms and legs starting to form. It is the most amazing thing to hear your baby's heartbeat for the first time. My next visit is at the end of next month. The doctor told us they will try and hear the heartbeat with the doppler. The doc says if you can hear the heartbeat with the doppler the chances of miscarriage drop to about 1%. So far so good. We really like our doctor. He's got a great sense of humor and answers questions really clearly. He told me not to worry about things I can't control and really put my mind at ease about things I had been reading. By the way, I do not recommend What to Expect When You're Expecting. There's a few things I have found that totally conflict with what the doctor and all my other pregnant or have been pregnant friends have told me. I'm getting less and less paranoid everyday about something going wrong. I've gained 7 pounds already (yes I cried but I can't loose weight right now so I'll get over it). I still gag when I smell something bad and threw up the other day because our damn lab puppy of 6 months who is supposed to be potty trained, pooped in his crate. Thank God I made it next door to my parents to see if mom could get the dog and the crate outside as I kept throwing up everywhere. I'm still really tired and even fell asleep during a great movie a few weeks ago which has only happened one other time in my life....while watching Matrix 3 which was one of the most boring movies I've seen because I didn't understand what was going one. I'm trying to take naps when I can as I'm waking up almost every 2 hours to pee or because I can't stay asleep. Tony is excited and yesterday really confired for the both of us that we are indeed pregnant. We are doing wonderfully and I'm embracing every good and bad symptom of pregnancy as I am so grateful to get to experience this.

And no, I am not going to blog about the health care bill. I know most of you know how I stand and I'm just going to leave it at that ;)