Week 6 - So far so good...

These last two weeks have been slow going in the wait for our first ultrasound. The ultrasound was on June 26th and it was an amazing sight! The baby is so small you can't even see it without the tech pointing it out on the screen. What you could see was the flutter of a tiny heartbeat which was the great news we were hoping for. The baby is measuring just right and they updated our due date to February 18th based on the measurements.

In this picture I have pointed out the baby but there really isnt' much to see. It was cooler to see it live on the ultrasound screen because you could see the fluttering heartbeat.

It is finally setting in that we are going to be parents and it really isn't that far off to February. Andy and I are so excited for all the changes coming between now and then.

So far I have been pretty lucky in that I have not been too sick or nauseous. We are praying I will be one of the lucky ones who don't experience horrible morning sickness that lasts all day. So far so good...

Week 5 - Still in a state of shock

I've been meaning to start a blog for some time now and this seems like a perfect excuse to start. We are exstatic to be expecting our first baby in February of 2009! According to the online calculators our expected due date is February 16, 2009 to be exact. I am still in a bit of a state of shock as I had just gotten used to seeing negative test results each month when last week to my surprise and joy the test was positive.

It was just a few days before Father's Day so I briefly toyed with the idea of keeping the news from Andy until Sunday to make for a great Father's Day surprise but that was a fleeting thought as I realized there was no way I could keep this a secret between me and McKinley for 3 whole days. I would have burst at some point so I figured I might as well get confirmation from the doctor and put a little thought into a "fun" way to tell Andy instead. So I got a blood test later that morning and confirmation from the doctor later that afternoon and then stopped on the way home and got a small baby photo album which I wrapped up with a printed card that read "Coming Soon - February 2009" along with the positive pregnancy test and gave to him that evening when I came home from work. He was, of course, so excited and happy to hear the news.

We are scheduled for our first ultrasound on June 26th to hear the heartbeat and hopefully see the little bean for the first time. I haven't really felt much going on but from time to time I feel little flutters and pangs. I have started drinking water much more than I used to so I don't know if the constant peeing is really a result of being prego or just more fluids than my body is used to handling (likely a combination of the two).

We are really struggling with not telling our closest friends and family the great news. We don't know yet when we will break the news but have resolved to at least wait until after the ultrasound to make sure things are all A-OK. When the time comes to tell folks I will share this blog to check in on progress so I wanted to start documenting things so they don't miss all this early stuff just because we were being so cautiously optimistic.