Best birthday ever!

I've had some memorable birthdays in the past, but this one might just be the best ever! As you may have read, we had our first appointment with our midwives yesterday. At first I was really nervous, not sure what to expect and so desperate for good news. After sitting down with Jennifer to talk about how things were going I started to feel a little better. She told us she would try to find the heartbeat with the doppler, even though at 10w3d we probably wouldn't be able to hear it. But she found it right away and we both got to hear it through her headphones! It was the most amazing sound... a very rapid swish swish swish! She also said she could feel my uterus and that if she didn't know better, she would say we were 12w! I wasn't even that surprised to hear that, because my belly seems to have popped out over an inch in just the last week! She didn't even need to do a further exam, because we all just wanted to make sure we were past the crutial (for us) 9w point. Huge sighs of relief and huge smiles all around!

We're not taking for granted that we still have a long way to go, but we are just so thrilled to have been able to hear the heartbeat and to receive the news that everything appears on target so far. I am getting more and more excited now with each passing day and week. Not that I'm anywhere near "showing" yet, but I am wearing some maternity clothes now, and still fitting in one pair of my regular jeans that really need a rest. I picked up a few new things yesterday, and it just feels so great! Of course the continued morning sickness and fatigue doesn't feel so great, but is reassuring nonetheless.

Also, I did have the due date wrong, it is in fact September 11, 2006. Our next milestone: another visit with the midwives at around 14w.