That's our baby

We have a heartbeat! A strong, healthy, amazingly awesome heartbeat! The ultrasound was truly the coolest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. But before I tell you how amazing it was, let me tell you how it happens (and yes, this is TMI):

This isn’t the pretty “squirt some jelly on your belly” ultrasound like in the movies. This is a “stick a rod up your hoo-haa” ultrasound. It’s called a transvaginal and they stick this long skinny rod with like an eye thing on the end up inside and move it around. It doesn’t hurt, but it sure doesn’t feel good either. I knew this when I went in, but I don’t think I was prepared for it, really. I mean, the ultrasound tech was so friendly and reassuring, but then all the sudden – wham! She stick in this rod and we’re off. She could have at least bought me lunch first…

But what happened next was the most amazing thing – we saw our baby. There he/she was. Just sitting there, being a baby. And I cried. I cried so hard with our ultrasound tech showed us the heartbeat, I missed it. I could not stop crying and then I looked at Chris. I could see tears in his eyes, which made me cry even more. There was our baby. Our baby. It was magical.

The tech took some measurements and pictures, but then started to pull the rod out. “Wait!” I cried. ”Please show me the heartbeat again! One more time, please!” I made myself stop crying and wiped my eyes. And I saw it. That little flicker going a mile a minute. It was so strong and fast. It was beautiful. The most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

That’s our baby.