Today was the big day I've been waiting for, our 8 week ultrasound, it was amazing. We got to see our little peanut. We didn't get to hear a heartbeat beat but we sure got to see it, it was fluttering away at 171 BPM. The technician said everything looked perfect and was right on track.
Our baby's webbed fingers and toes are poking out from his/her's hands and feet. He/she is about the size of a kidney bean and baby H is constantly moving and shifting, though I can't feel it, but we could sure see baby H moving in our u/s. It's amazing how they grow and develop.
Tom and I had an amazing day today, I got off work at 12:15 and went home to pick him up and headed up to Finley for our appointment. When we got there, Tom's mom and dad and my mom were all in the hall way waiting to go into the office along with about 10 other people. The door was locked to get into the doctor's office, which was very odd, but we all figured they were at lunch and would be back at any moment, finally about 1:05 someone came out and didn't realize the door was locked, she blamed it on one of the doctor's. So we all headed into the office and I was the only one there for an ultrasound so I got right in. The first thing I said was I have family members here who I would like in the room with me. I did call up the day before to ask if it was alright and they said that was fine. Well the tech was like "you know this is a vaginal u/s right?" I said yes and that was fine, it's not like they can see anything. And who care's for that matter we've all seen it before! LOL So after I got all situated and ready to go the tech called in everyone. Here come's my husband, mother & father-in-law and my mother. They all squeezed into the room and we got started. It was quite funny actually but once we got to see that baby it was all worth it. After several scans and pictures we were done. Tom and I met with the nurse to go over our family history and any questions we had. The nurse was super nice and knew exactly what she was talking about. I did have to go to the lab to have 2 test done that were not done in Iowa City, so we stopped there on our way out.
After we left we stopped over at Grandma's she was so excited to see us. She loved seeing the pictures of little baby H and I'm so glad she's around to see all this. We sat and chatted with her for a while and then headed out to get a pedicure and manicure. It was so relaxing and it felt so good to get pampered. Both of us got mani's and pedi's, Tom has never had a mani and I think he really liked it.
After being pampered we headed to the mall to putz around. I ended up buying a few things at Bath & Body works but that was it. It was now about 5:00 and I was getting hungry so we headed down town to Vinny Vanucchi's for some good pasta. We walked around downtown before going to eat but we couldn't wait long, so we headed in for dinner. I got the Seafood Italiano and Tom got Pasta Ala Vinny, both were delicious. Oh and we ended our dinner with a Taramisu dessert, yummy!
We headed home after that and relaxed on the couch, I was in bed at 9:00! Its getting earlier and earlier every night but I love the rest and how I feel in the mornings.
I've decided to try teaching Jazzercise again. I did ask the nurse and she said it was fine as long as I wasn't overdoing it. I will be doing 2 classes a week, one aerobic class, which I will do low impact, and the 2nd class will be a body sculpting class, which I won't be doing much sculpting myself as my baby growing inside me will be doing that for me, however some muscle work will not hurt me by any means, so I'm going to give it a shot and if I feel I can't do it then I will tell them I can't. I'm not afraid, I know I have to protect this baby!
Starting in a couple of weeks I think I will starting taking weekly pictures. I'm already feeling like a balloon sometimes and I guess I better start tracking this little baby's progress.
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