Due to the tornado, I was unable to go to my 12 week appointment and the usual appointment schedule would be thrown off by a week for the remainder of the pregnancy. At my 13 week appointment I was able to get an ultrasound of the baby! Not because it was cool or that I could, but because the doppler wasn't picking up the baby's heart beat! I was excited at first when the nurse said "if I can't find the heartbeat we'll have to do an ultrasound," but when she couldn't find the heartbeat, I was a little concerned.
I had begun to feel something in my lower abdomen that week, but didn't know what it was. The books say that when the baby kicks at first it can be confused with gas bubbles, please tell me what gas bubbles feel like? I would feel some kind of twinge, like something tumbling, every now and then, maybe once a day, but didn't know what it was. When the nurse put the probe (where she needed it to get a reading), I could see the baby move around!! I saw the baby curl up into a ball and then splayed out it's entire body and appendages, not to mention I FELT the baby do that right at the exact moment. From then on whenever I felt that tumbling twinge, I knew it was the baby making a big movement.
This image captured the heart rate, 160!
Apparently the baby was still in my pelvis and hadn't risen to my abdomen yet.
Beginning to look more like a little human!
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