So, as you probably know, I got to hear little soybean's heartbeat this past week. It was absolutely amazing. If you know me pretty well (or just read my facebook status updates) you will probably know that I don't think life begins at conception, I believe it begins at a heartbeat. So it has been confirmed in my eyes that little soybean is in fact alive.
Its very difficult to put into words what I felt when that little heart was heard on the machine. My midwife told me not to be concerned if we couldn't hear it this early but she wanted to try and see if it was there. She started wandering around on my belly with the machine and all of a sudden it was BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. I couldn't stop smiling! There it was, a tiny little heart beating away strong and loud. She said she was going to take my blood to check my levels but she wasn't concerned at all after hearing how strong that heart was. I was ecstatic! I couldn't stop thinking about it for the rest of the afternoon. Even cuter, little soybean kept moving around so she had to chase him/her around my belly to keep listening to it's little heart.
As well as getting to hear an absolutely beautiful sound, I asked her about my vitamins. Lately the morning sickness has been all day and the vitamins have been seemingly impossible to get down. She said because they are food based they dissolve in juice. OMG what a great idea!!! So I've been crushing them up and putting them in orange juice. I seriously cannot taste them at all and it makes me feel so much better to know I'm getting the vitamins I need. She also started me on calcium, it's bone time! She said I can also put that in something like pudding. I can't taste it at all either. I will definitely remember this for future mom's to be, because it could probably help a lot of people.
That is certainly an amazing thing. A confirmation you need when you can't feel the baby moving yet. After my first dr appt I kept telling Vinny I didn't think the baby was there anymore so when he went with me to the 2nd dr appt and we heard the heartbeat still there and strong it looked like he was near tears. =) You can also get a fetal heart detector and listen to the hearbeat anytime you want.
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