I can hear your heartbeat....wouldnt you agree baby you and me got a groovy kinda love

Today I had my second trimester appointment with my midwife.
I have an appt. every 4 weeks for now, until my pregnancy progresses further.

My blood panels came back. I have O positive blood. So, with an A positive husband, we do not need the RH shots. I am free of any major disease. The panel scans for HIV, Hepatitis, Chlamydia, Diabetes, and proteins in your blood and urine.
I have lost yet another pound, but the midwife is not concerned.
My Blood Pressure was 102 over 72...very good.

My uterus is growing and expanding upward and outward to house a growing baby...that is now 3 1/2 to 4 inches long, the size of a lemon.

I am, according to the midwife, a very healthy mom.

Then, Cindy, my midwife, gave me a wonderful gift. She had me lay back and put jelly on my baby bump, she turned on the doppler and told me to not get my hopes up, but that we were going to try and hear the baby's heartbeat.

Jim and I heard the heartbeat at our 6.5 week emergency ultrasound. It was at 117 BPM.
That was 6.5 weeks ago and it was an internal ultrasound with a baby the size of an appleseed.

Cindy placed the doppler on my far right lower abdomen and within 2 seconds...we had contact.
Our baby's heart was beating at 146 BPM.
Cindy moved the Doppler 2 more inches to catch up to our active baby. She said "wow...for 13 weeks, this little baby is in there moving and ashaking!"
I like to think that it is in there dancing.

And suddenly, after weeks of being exhausted and so very sick and incredibly worried, this is all so much more real to me. Cindy asssured me, her "worried mommy" as she likes to call me, that everything is perfect and my baby is inside of me, happy and healthy and growing...and everything is gonna be alright.

I breathed my first sigh of relief today, a deeper breath than I have breathed in 13 weeks.
Then, I headed to the Hoagie place and ate a 12 foot turkey hoagie....the baby was hungry and we needed to celebrate.

God is good.