Written December 31, 2018, published in February 2019
We have seen and heard our baby today!! What a wonderful thing. And the baby danced a little for us ♥ ..or, it wiggled:) So from now on we call the baby “Wiggly“ hahah. It is 1.16 cm and the heartbeat was 170 something. I am not 9 weeks pregnant like we thought, I am 8+1. Our new due date is August 11th!
Jim drove to work after our visit and I took an uber back home. Guess if I watched the video Jim took over and over again haha. And we have a little picture of baby now too so I can get reminded that I am actually pregnant. Still not feeling much which I feel super lucky for but of course I have been a little worried for a minute or two every day. But seeing little Wiggly today calms me down a lot. So weird to know that there’s a little human dancing around in my belly ♥
And guess what? It’s just ONE!!!! You have no idea how happy this made me! I have been so worried that it would be two. Maybe there is another one hiding behind Wiggly but if that’s the case then he/she is doing a great job playing hide and seek. This calmed me down too. I have had nightmares about having twins since I was a little kid. Twins are cute and all, but we only want one child and then be done. Jim and I have been saying that since we met. We said that 32 would be a good age for us and we only want one.
Before this visit I have been going back and forth on if it’s a boy or a girl and because of that it worried me that it would be one of each. Some days it would be very strong feelings that it’s a boy and then the next day it feels like it’s definitely a girl, and then it changes every day. But when we came there today I had absolute no thought of twins, I suddenly expected it to be just one. I had told Jim that we have to really ask the Dr and make sure there’s only one in there, but I really had no thought about it today and Jim had to ask, and the Dr confirmed that yes, there’s definitely only one in there. Yay!
Another thing was that I got a feeling it’s a girl. I don’t know if I felt it when we came to the hospital or if it was first when we saw the baby, but I definitely just assumed it was a girl we were looking at. We will not find out so we won’t know until August. We’ll see if I start to feel differently about the gender the further along I am, but for now we both think it’s a girl.
Happy New Year!