Our first ultrasound! & Doctor's appointments.

We had our first ultrasound yesterday, and baby's doing fine! Sorta looks like a guinnae pig, don't it? LOL!

We got down to the clinic about 15 minutes before the appointment. We saw an old friend of ours who was just completely ecstatic to see us and very excited for us. She was down there with her daughter, and they just found out they're having a little boy! Congrats, Pam!

We got our parking pass and signed in. I didn't even sit down for a minute before they called me to sign the HIPPA form and a paper giving permission to do the ultrasound. I signed them and sat down for about another 30 seconds and we were called back for the ultrasound. Josh had been saying how we were going to be sitting there all day, and he brought a book to read. He read maybe a paragraph before we got called, hehe.

We got to see our baby's heart beating! The doctor made the heart different colors so we could see it. It was simply amazing, and the baby was wiggling like crazy! Just watching it gave me peace of mind because aside from the occasional nauseousness and being a lot more tired than usual, I haven't "felt" pregnant. Mom said that's because I don't know what being pregnant feels like, and she has a point, but it still felt so, so good to see that the baby's being a little wiggle-worm and is growing normally. Josh's face while he watched the screen was so adorable. The look of wonder in his eyes amazed me. I think we both had a moment of, "Wow. This is our child!" I can't even begin to describe it.

The doctor told us that the head was to the left and the rump was to the right. I couldn't really see it until the whole guinnae pig idea came to mind, lol! I know it's a silly way of looking at it, but whatever works, right? My brother-in-law says there's another baby under there somewhere, lol. He had dreamed that I had triplets, and is very persistent about the idea, lol!

We had brought a DVD to hopefully record the ultrasound, but we needed a DVD-RW and all we had was a DVD-R, so we didn't get video, but the doctor put some jpeg's on there for us. Our next ultrasound is on November 24, and that's when we should find out the sex of the baby if he/she's acting right and lets us see, lol. We'll be sure to have the right DVD next time. Also, with this ultrasound, our due date changed from April 21 to April 23 (Terri's birthday!). Josh told me to wait 4 more days and have it on his dad's birthday like Kim did. I told him I'd do my best, lol!

All of this under 15 minutes, lol. We signed in at 8:45 and were walking out the door around 9:00. We had already cleared our entire morning, so we didn't really know what to do with ourselves, hehe.

I had another doctors appointment yesterday afternoon for my first (ever) pap smear. It wasn't as bad as everyone kept telling me it was, so I really don't know what the big deal was all about. It felt a little weird for a second and was done in about 30 seconds. No pain, no nothing, and the nurse was really, really nice and talked my ear off the entire time. That made me feel good because so far when I've been up there, I've been really nervous since all of this is so new to me, and everyone I've met so far has been absolutely amazing and friendly. It really puts my mind at ease to know that these people really care about what they're doing because you can see it while they're working. They care about their work and their patients. I love it.

So, that was our first ultrasound experience. I don't have anymore doctor's appointments until the end of October, so that's all the news I have for now on the baby front. Now it's time to get my Ta Da List together and get the house back in order. I took 2 days off from housework, and well, you can tell it, lol!