The 12 week appointment is already here and after I told Steve that we may or may not hear the heartbeat - he was already telling his work he would be working a half day so he could be there. We meet at home and head down to Rose. I love days like these - its fun to go to the doctors for once to see how baby herbie is shaping up. I just wish the doctors appointment weren't so far apart!
We park and start walking in - there is a smell of hot dogs in the air. Steve gets excited and says, "mmmm hot dogs!" and I immediately start searching my purse for my Preggo Pops. My stomach has still been nauseous and the smell of hot dogs is not a good thing for me to smell right now. I just hope getting out of the 1st trimester will help this go away!!
We sign in and the receptionist tells us we owe them money ... this baby is already expensive! Steve is looking at me shaking his head. He goes on to say, "I think that those pops really don't do anything - I think its all in your head. I bet I could buy you Dum-Dums and they would still work ..." Since Steve is the type of person that needs to know why or how something works - I say, "Bring it. Ask the doctor if these work ... I bet she will have my back!" He replies with, "Fine!"
My name is called - I do the urine sample thing - but this time I am more confident that I am suppose to pee in the plastic cup. I jot down my name on the cup, put it in the cubby hole, wash my hands and meet the nurse in the hall. Time for a weight check. GREAT. I get on the scale and I am closing my eyes yet I have one peeked open to see how fat I have gotten. Wait, whats this?! Down a pound! Ok! I will take it! I follow her into a room where Steve was sitting.
"Ok, I have to ask ... do those Preggo Pops even work?!" Steve decides to get this off his chest right away. "Oh yeah, are you feeling nauseous right now?" the nurse is looking at me ... "Yeah, I smelled hot dogs on the way in ... " She laughs and continues with, "Yeah - these pops have a ton of ginger in them to help settle the stomach. Another good alternative is Canada Dry Ginger Ale." I am just staring at Steve waiting for him to realize that Dum-Dums was a Dum-Dum idea!
My doctor had to go and deliver a baby so I see her back up. She asks the normal questions, asked if we had questions and decided to move on to listening to the baby's heartbeat. It sounds like something from outer space - pretty sure it was ET's family trying to get a hold of him. "Listen - you can hear it in the background ... that noise. That's the heartbeat ..." Now - many of you reading this has experienced in enjoying the sounds of your baby's heartbeat - it is the most surreal things I can think of. On one hand you think, "Wait you crazy bitch! that's MY heartbeat!" because its so weird. Then on the other hand you hear this beating and you are like, "WOW I have a human inside of me ..." Its the best thing you could ever hear in your life.
The nurse comes back in, gives me a flu shot - swipes my mouth for something (I think she is doing a DNA test to see if this baby is really mine) and sends us upstairs to get blood tests. Once that was over - we got in our car and just talked about the heartbeat the rest of the car ride home! I just cannot wait for the next appointment!
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