Lub-dub!

Today's words to describe how I feel--thrilled, relieved, excited, ecstatic, enthralled, happy...need I go on?

Today was the follow-up doctor's appointment from 10 days ago, to try to hear the baby's heartbeat. I was really anxious heading down to Portland. I had the conversation with Jon the other night: what if I'm not really pregnant? What if it's all in my head? What if the test was a false positive? What if, what if, what if?!!?!?

His answer was typical Jon. "Don't worry about it. I'm sure everything is fine. If something was wrong, the doctor would have called and told you already."

So, regardless of my husband's perfectly sensible advice, I worried anyway. I couldn't help it! Anyway, we got in to see the doctor, and I told her about my worries. She said Jon was right-on in his advice. After all, he was making more sense than I was.

(Pray tell, lady, get on with the story already! you say) The doctor proceeds to slap the blue goo on my belly and start moving the sonogram machine around. At first, it sounds like we're all listening to the ocean in my gut. Nice. Then she heads over to the left, right below my belly button, and sure enough!--it sounds like someone's running a marathon in my belly!!

The doctor goes over the area again, and she says,"There's definitely a baby in there!" I'm smiling and giggling so much the machine catches all of my internal noises. That's cool. But that little munchkin is going at 160 beats per minute!!!

And, according to the doctor, I'm officially 11 weeks and 5 days along. It's actually hard to believe I'm almost done with my first trimester already. It's--thankfully--been relatively easy. I had my icky stomach for a while, but this last week or so has just been a breeze. I feel like I'm more back to my, ahem, normal self...except for my belly. Which has been showing for a month or so already. But I love maternity clothes! Everything's elastic! No binding!

So, I'm officially pregnant! My due date right now is February 27, 2009. Now let's just hope for a boy...that information we get to find out in about 2 months!

(and for you fellow grammar and English "nazis"--yes, I'm aware that I've changed verb tenses, written fragments, starting with conjunctions, and a plethora of other grammar woes. But this is my blog, and I hope anyone that reads it can see me talking like this in person. So enjoy, regardless of my grammatical shortcomings!)