2 Heartbeats

In week 10, Katy and I had our first Dr. appointment.  I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I didn't realize it was going to be my first experience at the woman Dr.  They leave that part out in the movies.

The Dr. was informative and gave us tons of resources but it was definitely information overload.  Who knew all of the things that you can't do or eat while you're pregnant?  I didn't.  It makes me wonder how many women got sick or babies had birth defects before they started to implement all of these dos and don'ts.  Its not like pregnant moms in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and South America even have access to this information, let alone could do anything about it.

Anywho, back to the appointment.  There was a moment where we were supposed to hear the heartbeat.  Even though the Dr. said you can't always hear it, it made me nervous when we couldn't.  So they took us into a different room where we could see both the baby and the heartbeat.  It was crazy!  Basically, they put this jelly on Katy's stomach and rubbed something that resembled a TV remote on top of it and the next thing you know there is a little baby on the screen.  As if that wasn't crazy enough, we saw the heartbeat and Baby Bradley started to jump and move around! He or she is gonna be quite the athlete! 

How weird is that?  One person responsible for 2 heartbeats! 

This was the first time I started to feel like it was officially real.  I'm sure the feeling will gradually grow, especially when we find out if we are having a girl or boy.  We are praying for good health and would continue to ask that you do the same.