Dancing Baby!!

I had my second (and much more detailed) appointment this morning. At my doctor's office, you always meet with a midwife and she does all the yucky stuff (bloodwork, pap, cultures, etc.) for your 2nd appointment. It was awesome . My blood pressure was good (120/80) and I'd lost 5 lbs (thanks morning (aka all day) sickness!!). Then the poor nurses tried to draw blood. My veins are TERRIBLE and one nurse stuck me but got nothing. After searching for another vein, she called in a 2nd nurse. She looked too and found nothing. They said I lucked out because my midwife (Casey) used to work in a lab. Casey came in and we talked for awhile about the dos and don'ts and then she tried. First stick and she got it (whew!) They needed 3 vials and she filled them quick. After she put a band-aid on it, I immediately bled through it. Mini-crisis until she could get it to stop, but it was fine. She laughed that I was impossible to stick but once I got going, I wouldn't quit. Then she did the fun pap and internal. Not much fun, but I survived..haha. After all that, she got the doppler and tried to find the heartbeat. She tried for a few minutes and then turned the ultrasound machine on. She tried with the external ultrasound and of course, the baby wouldn't cooperate. (She said it was a boy since it was being a pain..haha). Then, because Casey is the best person in the whole wide world, she offered an internal ultrasound! She said that her sister and husband tried for 6 years before getting pregnant so she knew how much I'd worry if I didn't get to see the baby or hear the heartbeat. It was the best thing ever. The baby was doing flips and dancing around. There is music pumped through the rooms and "Footloose" was playing. Casey said it looked like the baby was dancing to it! Then, I swear, it looked like it turned towards us and waved! I got a little teary-eyed, but held it together. Because it's an older ultrasound machine, she couldn't listen to its heartbeat so I don't know the heartbeat rate but I'll take looking at our baby dancing any day!! :-)

My next appointment is Feb. 4. I'll be 16 weeks.