So far, so good!

Good afternoon!

I am relieved to to let you know that our ultrasound this morning went very well!

The tech measured our baby’s heart rate twice and it was beating at 171 and then 182 bpm. Which is very good/normal.

The tech measured our baby’s crown to rump length twice and got both 2.50 cm (9 weeks 1 day) and 2.59 cm (9 weeks 3 days) for due dates of September 20 and September 18 (however, they will still likely go with my original due date from my last menstrual period of September 23).

Everything seems to continue to be going normally thus far and we hope and pray for this pregnancy to be as normal and uneventful as possible! 🙂

Our next regular pre-natal appointment is scheduled for Friday, February 27, when hopefully, if things continue to go well, our baby will be between 10 & 11 weeks gestation. Our doctor will try to get the baby’s heart rate on the Doppler that day, but our tech today assured us if there is any trouble or question about it, they would definitely do another ultrasound.

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. You support and encouragement means so much to us. I heard someone say recently that being pregnant again after losing a baby (like we have with Molly) was the second hardest thing she ever had to do in her life (the first being losing her child). I can really relate to that statement right now.

We are excited about our baby and a grateful to have made it this far, just nervous knowing what can go wrong and trying to take this one day, one step and one OB appointment at a time. We are very encouraged by today’s news and continue to be cautiously optimistic.

Please still keep this to yourself.* We will let you know when our pregnancy is “public,” however since we don’t intend to tell Sean for as long as possible, we would like to keep those who know to a minimum. Thank you.

*Edited to add: what I am referring to here is those of you who we know and come into regular contact with “in real life.” Especially those who interact with Sean. I haven’t and don’t plan to share about our pregnancy on CarePages or Facebook for some time, but felt I needed and outlet and thus have chosen to blog about it here. I don’t mind if you want to share about this with fellow bloggers in the Adoption, Loss & Infertility (ALI) Blogosphere or in the online support groups that I am, or have been, a part of with you, but have not shared my news with yet. I really do appreciate your enthusiasm, care and support. I just am trying to protect Sean and respect that many of our family members and close friends don’t know our news yet and we would prefer when the time comes they hear it from Bob or me and not “through the grapevine.”