Swish Swish Swish

Today was another amazing day, experiencing a phenomenal
first with my love, aka baby daddy Bakken! ;)
Today we were able to hear Baby B's heartbeat!
I am 13 weeks along, and while I have had no complications
I still was nervous going into this appointment.
It had been a whole month since our last/first visit,
and I was curious to see if there really was something
still baking in there! So they put us in a room,
which had no equipment in it, which we found odd.
Seeming as this is our first rodeo we don't really know
what to expect and when to expect it. So I started wondering
if we really would hear the heartbeat today. But the doc
came in with this portable little thingy,
no idea what the technical term for it is and said,
"Let's hear this heartbeat shall we??"
Heck yes doc, let's do the dang thing!

But first, he forewarned us not to freak out if for
some reason he couldn't find the heartbeat right away.
He said that sometimes the baby is moving around and it's
hard to get a good read on it. So with my anxiety
already a little high, he put some jelly on my mooshy belly
and put the scope up and we had a listen in on
Baby B. Luckily and thankfully he found the heartbeat
really quickly, I think quicker than he anticipated
as well because he let out a "oh well never mind, that was easy"!
It was an amazing sound and all I could do was smile.
I have a baby in my belly! CRAZY!
I promised Gma Kip, who was possibly more excited
than Michael and I for our visit today, that I would try
and record it for her, since she couldn't be with us.
I recorded it on my phone, but I think it came out pretty
good! I could listen to it all day, it is seriously so amazing
to think we made a lil' human being and I (quite scary) am
the one to make sure it comes out healthy and strong! I
feel like it's such a scary, huge responsibility but I already
love the lil' Gummi Bear so much and already feel so connected!
I can't wait (but we will have to for a while) to know what
HF will be blessing us with for the first go around! Boy or
girl I will be overjoyed at the huge blessing this truly is!
So grandma Kip, here is Baby B's strong and
healthy heartbeat!