First Ultrasound

So the first 3 weeks of waiting for the ultrasound went by very quickly and we were able to keep busy.  I kept focusing on a healthy baby and praying, praying, praying.  Something I forgot to mention in the last post is that one of my coworkers gave me a Rudshaka seed from the Himalayas.  In his culture these seeds are five sided and meant to bring good luck.  I was very touched by this gesture and couldn't believe how thoughtful he was.  He gave me the seed at the beginning of May and then only a few weeks later we had our positive test.  I'm not saying that it was 100% that seed, but I thought it was an interesting thing to mention.

The last week of waiting once I was out of work was pure torture.  I did really well until a couple days before and then I felt like I was worried sick!  I of course was also very nauseated and actually getting sick sometimes.  So that did help to settle my mind, but it was still really difficult to wait all week and not know whether everything was okay or if we were going to see another missed miscarriage.  Fortunately this is the image we were able to take home:

We are so thankful for a healthy and growing baby!  Baby was measuring between 7w3d and 7w5d so we decided to go with February 3rd as the official date!  This is definitely a mother's day baby.  Crazy to think of how many blessings God has given us in the last few weeks.  God timed everything perfectly down to a Mother's Day conception.  How perfect!  Heart rate was high and the doctor said everything looked perfect.  Now the four week wait for my next appointment on July 19th.