Thursday, September 11, 2008

We heard the heartbeat!

Baby is doing great! My uterus is actually measuring big; by about 2 weeks! Not by fundal height but by it's placement/height. She said if we hadn't already had 4 other ultrasounds she would be sending us for one to double check to make sure it wasn't multiples. I'll be 16 weeks on Friday but I'm already measuring about 18 weeks.

She was also able to find the heartbeat briefly. Apparently we have a VERY active baby, and I hadn't ate or drank anything other than water in the past two hours so it wasn't me giving the baby extra sugar. She even laughingly said, "Good luck when this one comes out! You two are going to be busy!" Baby was moving around so much we were only able to catch the heartbeat for about 2 seconds at a time. We were able to hear a few kicks against the doppler as well. And baby is definitely hanging out on my right side, which is what I was guessing. She said the good news is since the baby is so active it's a good indication that the baby is very healthy.

Our big ultrasound is scheduled for Thursday, October 9th. Also since I have had a LEEP in the past the OB that reviewed my files suggested that they monitor my cervix closely which means a few extra ultrasounds in there after the BIG one to check the length of it. I'm MORE than okay with that!

As far as how I was already guessing that the baby was hanging out on the right side, my right side is slightly higher than my left most of the time. And if I push my stomach out as far as possible the lump on the right will suddenly move to the center, so that's the baby saying, "Hey! You're squishing me here!" and moving towards the middle.