Yesterday my wife went for a doctor's appointment to check up on the pregnancy, and something amazingly cool happened. I guess because she's on the thin side, they were able to use the Doppler thingamajigy to detect the baby's heartbeat, three weeks earlier than with most. I wasn't there, sadly, but apparently she first heard this low, deep heartbeat, which was hers, and then when they moved the device towards the baby all of the sudden there was this speedy little tickatickaticka coming from junior's thumper (between 120 and 160 beats per minute at this age, I'm told).
We're into the tenth week now, which is just bonkers. I guess the baby is starting to move around, and is now the size of a prune, which for some reason is not as cute as its previous stage as a cocktail olive. I guess we all go through our ugly stages, and I'm loving that kid no matter what. I can't wait until it's an apple. Who doesn't love apples?
Another kind of random thing that happened was that the nurse seemed to want my wife to have morning sickness. Yes, you read that right. Last time she visited and said that her sister didn't have any morning sickness, the nurse emphatically stated that family members are no predictor of your own patterns. This time, when my wife said that she'd lost a pound, the nurse asked if it was because of morning sickness. When my wife said no, the nurse pressed on, almost disappointed, "No vomiting?" Nope. Sorry about that.
I guess we'll just file that one under miscellaneous random stuff that happens to your while you're preggers. I'm imagining the nurse didn't have such a good time with her own morning sickness. As is usually the case, we judge others by the standard of our own experience.
We're into the tenth week now, which is just bonkers. I guess the baby is starting to move around, and is now the size of a prune, which for some reason is not as cute as its previous stage as a cocktail olive. I guess we all go through our ugly stages, and I'm loving that kid no matter what. I can't wait until it's an apple. Who doesn't love apples?
Another kind of random thing that happened was that the nurse seemed to want my wife to have morning sickness. Yes, you read that right. Last time she visited and said that her sister didn't have any morning sickness, the nurse emphatically stated that family members are no predictor of your own patterns. This time, when my wife said that she'd lost a pound, the nurse asked if it was because of morning sickness. When my wife said no, the nurse pressed on, almost disappointed, "No vomiting?" Nope. Sorry about that.
I guess we'll just file that one under miscellaneous random stuff that happens to your while you're preggers. I'm imagining the nurse didn't have such a good time with her own morning sickness. As is usually the case, we judge others by the standard of our own experience.
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