Heard the heartbeat!

[glitzy07]

I had my first appointment this morning and H and I got to hear the heartbeat!

My doctor doesn't do an ultrasound until the A/S at 20 weeks, so we just used the doppler device. She warned that 10 weeks might be a bit too early, but not to panic if we didn't hear anything.

It took quite a while to find it (and three squirts of cold jelly!), but just when we were about to give up we heard a fast beat for a few seconds. And then the battery died on the doppler!

But we heard it nonetheless. We'll be telling our family on Christmas Eve and I'm so excited to finally have people know!

[joolz]

Thumbs up! Good work, baby.

[baconlettucetomato]

Yay for a good appointment. I'm glad they found the HB, mine couldn't and I freaked out and cried, lol.

[glitzy07]

Dec 20, 2012 14:46:31 GMT -5 baconlettucetomato said:

Yay for a good appointment. I'm glad they found the HB, mine couldn't and I freaked out and cried, lol.

I was getting very freaked out, even though she warned me. And then when the battery died right as we found it, I was very frustrated. We tried to find it again when she got the doppler to turn back on, but baby decided to hide after we found him/her.

I'm sorry you couldn't find yours, hopefully next time! My doc told me that if she couldn't find it, I was welcome to schedule another appointment before I was due for my next monthly one, just to try to hear the HB.

[baconlettucetomato]

She sent me to get an U/S when she couldn't find it(I have previous losses) but yeah. While waiting for that U/S I was hysterical. Damn stubborn child.

[rt2008]

So glad you could hear it, even just for a short time!