Morning sickness set in two days before we left on our trip. And here I was thinking I would be one of the lucky few spared the nausea (mom never had any!). Our trip was really awesome anyhow - at least the parts after noon. The mornings mostly consisted of my sitting with my eyes closed on the touring bus trying not to move or breath.
Mom and dad now know the secret, too. I told them on a trip to Pgh for a CMU reunion. My poor friend Kristin had to be witness to the family event, but I was glad to be able to tell them in person. My dad's reaction was shouting, "Oh my God!" and my mom to cry and say, "I never thought you'd really do it!" I thought that was pretty funny, ha.
Today we got to have our second ultra-sound. The first just revealed the gestational sac and yolk sac. (Makes me feel like a chicken.) But today was pretty amazing. Immediately she found the baby, who is exactly on track being the proper size measuring 7 weeks and 4 days. Seeing the heartbeat, and then hearing it was so wonderful. To know that little one is really in there, alive and growing. The heartbeat is 152 beats per minutes, which I am told is perfectly normal. Ryan said he was even more excited to see how excited I was to see it on the screen. It really is so cool. I will try to scan in the picture and attach it here, but basically imagine a little shrimp. That's what it looks like :-)
Labels: heartbeat, telling, travel
