First Ultrasound/Appointment with the doc...

Yesterday was my first ultrasound and my first time seeing an actual doctor. My appointment was scheduled for 11:00. I wrote down 11:00 in my calendar. But somehow in the two months between scheduling the appointment and yesterday I had gotten it in my head that my appointment was at 10:30. My office has a policy where they want you to show up twenty minutes before your appointment so we were an hour early. No big deal... we just hung out and joked around and played games on Alex's phone.

When then tech started the ultrasound the baby was sleeping. When she said something that made me laugh he* woke up and started dancing around. It's crazy how something that small can look so freaking cute! I can't even describe how it felt to see that there is a real live baby in there with arms and legs to stretch out and flail around. I couldn't stop smiling. The baby is measuring right on schedule.

When we went back out in the waiting room to wait to be called back to see the doctor, a woman came in who was clearly in labor... she could barely walk. They wheeled her back and checked her and immediately wheeled her down to labor and delivery (where she should have gone in the first place.) Alex nudged me and said that would be me later this year... which doesn't seem real. The stork is going to bring my baby.

Seeing the doctor was uneventful. I had an exam and she kept asking if we had any questions. We really didn't. I'm sure that I'll come up with some but I think I was just more excited to get confirmation that I'm actually pregnant, and right now I'm just trusting God and trying to trust my body. The ultrasound tech told me that now was a good time to stop being so superstitious.

*We don't know if the baby is a boy or girl but "he" sounds better than "it."