Steve and I went to my first doctor's appointment this morning. Apparently, I'm measuring between 7 weeks 1 day and 7 weeks 5 days. The doctor said it's hard to tell at this early in the game and he said that the baby was kind of hiding so it was difficult to get a good picture at first. He also said that the sonogram has a 5 day margin of error so who knows where in the 7th week that I am in. He went over the basics with us and told us about the different tests I'll have to do to make sure that the baby isn't at risks for things like spina bifida which is the most common disorder in caucasions. He told me I'd need to get a 12week ultrasound (yay!) to test for some disorders and then another ultrasound at 20 weeks I think (which is the big one).
We also go to see the heartbeat. It was so unreal. It just looked like a little flutter of a light that you could barely see but it made it all a little more real to me. He said that once you see the heartbeat, the chance of miscarriage goes down about 90% or something like that so that was really good to hear. Anyway, here's the big picture....
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