We had our first prenatal visit tonight. It involved mostly paperwork and discussion - stuff about insurance, pregnancy exercises, nutrition. Nothing big to report there.
We had been hoping to be able to hear the funny, washing machine-esque noises of our baby's heartbeat at tonight's visit, but I guess it's too soon. At the birthing center they don't do ultrasounds; they listen to the heartbeat via some Doppeler device. Megan, the midwife we met with today, said that it's rare for them to get a heartbeat before ten weeks and, since I'm only at nine weeks, barely, then it wouldn't really work out for us.
However, we made another appointment for two weeks from today just to go in and hear LBH's little heart beating away.
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It's too bad that you didn't get to hear the heartbeat. I know you are really looking forward to that. Well, I hope in two weeks you definitely get to hear it! :)
If they don't do ultrasounds, will you ever get to see the baby before it is born?
Yeah. They can order them at any time. We'll probably just have the five-month one for the kiddo's gender.
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