Today was our 27 week checkup and it was with NP, Stephanie who is probably the nicest medical professional I’ve ever met (excluding the Q’s, of course). The appointment consistented of the usual questions “how are you feeling” ”do you have any questions” and a review of what is to come in the next few weeks.
My favorite part of each of these appointments is when the doppler instrument is brought out and we get to hear BP’s heartbeat motoring away at 140 bpm. For some reason, this is always much more “real” to me than a picture on the ultrasound. The past two visits we’ve had in the office, it took some time to locate the heartbeat because evidently BP was tucked away somewhere. Today, however, as soon as Stephanie set the doppler on my lower right abdomen we could hear the heartbeat. What made it even better was that right away, Stephanie also pointed out a faint whooshing sound which she said was BP moving around. She looked at me and said “can you feel that?” After focusing for a moment, I could. Then she looked at Justin, who was sitting next to me at the table, but in plain view of my bare belly and said “can you see that?” And he could!! It was just pretty damn awesome for us to be able to hear the little heartbeat and see/feel the movements happening along with the sound. I think we reached a new level of yearning to meet BP today.
This is great timing because the “nesting” phase seems to have kicked in now that I’m in my 3rd trimester. We spent this past weekend purging 3rd floor of the house of all the “extra’s” (books, clothes, files, etc) and moving furniture around to make space for BP’s accommodations. While I’m sure this was absolute torture for Justin, I was thrilled! Hopefully in a few weeks we can tackle the basement and then we should be all set after a few runs to Goodwill to make donations. Hooray!

BP on 4/16/2010 (18 weeks)









