Y3W: My 1st Ultrasound

Y3W: My 1st Ultrasound

Guess who this is: OUR NEW BABY!!

I had my first ultrasound for baby #2 today, and I was amazed at how incredible it was. I don't really know what I was expecting, I have been soo excited about this baby, and have been in love with him or her since I first saw those two pink lines show up on the test, but I somehow thought that maybe after having been through it already, that it would lose something. I was so happy today to realize that nothing is lost on the second baby. Not only am I just as excited as I was with Addison, but the experience is just as special.

I was actually luckier this time around, because with Addison, when we refused the NT scan, we opted out of the 12 week ultrasound and I had to wait until 18 weeks and 3 days to see her. This time, due to my heart shaped uterus, they wanted to see where the baby was, and get an exact date, so 12 week ultrasound it was.

I don't even have my first real Dr. appt until tomorrow, so up until today, I hadn't even heard a heartbeat. You never know what is going on in there until you at least get a doppler on your belly. I was thrilled today when the tech showed me a very squirmy, very active, and very beautiful little baby. I was also thrilled that there was only ONE in there!

I didn't get much info out of the technician, she was very nice and let me watch the baby for a long time, but she really couldn't tell me much, they like the Dr to do that. She did tell me the baby was too small and squirmy to even guess at the sex, and she did tell me the heartbeat was strong, and that baby was very active. She also told me that Baby P was measuring AHEAD (though she didnt tell me how much) which surprised me because Addison always measured at least a week behind. At one scan, she measured almost two weeks behind!

So tomorrow I get to hear all the details from the scan, I am very eager to hear how far ahead I am measuring, and see if my due date gets changed, and I also get to book my next ultrasound, which will be my anatomy scan where *hopefully* Baby P becomes baby girl or baby boy.

Tonight, Ryan is away for work, and Addison is spending the night with Grammie and Grampie, and I will be home dreaming of that little hand that kept waving at me, the little arms that kept snuggling up to a very little baby neck, and a little body that kept curling up when it was poked.

Baby P, I already adore you, you already have just as big a piece of my heart as your sister, and I can barely contain my excitement of hearing your little heartbeat for the first time tomorrow morning.

 Baby P at 12 weeks 1 day