Heartbeat

Well, we finally got to hear the baby's heartbeat today. Karen had her 12 week (or 14 according to our calcs) checkup today and had all of her lab work done. I was not in the room when they drew the blood because of what happened last time :) But then we got to go back and see her CNM. It was a quick visit, just asked if we had any questions and then tried to find the heartbeat. It took her a while to find it, but eventually she did. I was a bit nervous during that time, but everyting turned out well. The little thing was pumping blood out at an astounding rate of 156 bpm!! That still amazes me!

My 2 cents.....Doug beats me to it all the time! I must say that I was slightly nervous when she couldn't find the heartbeat intially. And I was very releaved when the kid decided to cooperate with us. We asked the CNM about the intestines being on the outside of the baby's body and she didn't answer us, so it is still a mystery.