7w 6d

I'm such a tease. I promised an ultrasound picture and then...I don't know...I think I got tired. Or sick to my stomach. Or tired of being sick to my stomach. Something along those lines. Here are the ultrasounds so far:

7w 1 d

5w

First of all, can we give a holla for my uterus? Look at the size of that thing in just under two weeks. The gestational sac is still visible in my second ultrasound, which means that I'm definitely closer to 7 weeks than previously thought.

The biggest news was that we saw the baby's heartbeat. I saw it immediately, just a flickering on the screen and it was such a relief. I had pretty much convinced myself that the baby just would stop developing at 6 weeks and never get a beating heart. Fortunately, that didn't happen. We both saw and heart the baby's heart beat, which was right at 144 beats per minute.

Notice I say "we" saw the heart beat? That's right. KGII came back into town (he lives two hours away) to go the Ob-Gyn appointment. When he saw the heart beat, he turned to me and very quizzically declared, "We're having a child?!?" I crunched my eye brows and said, "We were having one two weeks ago, too" and he said, "But now it's real".

Real indeed. I have more to say about KGII and what happened between us, but I'm still trying to process everything and learn from the experience. He is still around occasionally and we are trying to work on being friends. I literally just take it day by day, between the debilitating morning sickness and fatigue. I can't wait to put the first trimester behind me.