Ultrasound - 7 weeks 5 days

5/30/12


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That's my graduation song!  I graduated to my regular OB!   YAY!!!!!  I finally feel like I can accept this pregnancy!  Same as last pregnancy, I will take this opportunity to put up my ticker and start my weekly updates.  I am so excited and so grateful for this second baby.

The heartbeat was 162 bpm!  Up from the original 95 bpm at 6 weeks and the 125 bpm in the Emergency Room after the accident.   I forgot how beautiful of a sound that fast beating heart is.    This is my second pregnancy but I am still just as in awe of the fact that my body made that heart.  My body made that heart beat.  I won't be taking any of this pregnancy for granted.  I will still mark every milestone with excitement and wonder and I will still write about everything I experience.  I am even more exited to deliver this time since I know what an amazing experience it was the first time around.  I wondered if I would ever get the chance to do this again.

Jamie and I went to Memphis for a wedding this past weekend.  We went up a few days early and spent a couple of days together, just the two of us.  It was so nice.  I had wanted to visit Memphis for years.  I would often ask Jamie if we could go on a road trip to Memphis to enjoy some of the Barbecue restaurants we see often on The Food Network and The Travel Channel.  We finally made it...and barbecue makes me nauseous.  Like, it was all I could do to sit in the restaurant with Jamie while he ate.  I had a Greek salad at the first barbecue restaurant, ordered a house salad at the second (the next night) and was so sick I couldn't eat it and when Jamie picked up barbecue at the third restaurant I stayed in the car.  I finally made it to Memphis and couldn't eat barbecue.  I experienced the same exact thing when I was pregnant with Maddie, I couldn't stand meat or anything smoked or grilled.  Of course, we now think we are having a second girl because of my identical symptoms.

I would love a boy or a girl by the way.  Two girls would be so fun and a boy would be a fun change of pace.  I still maintain that he is destined to make little girls and to be surrounded by girls as he is great with his niece, sisters and his many gal pals.

I downloaded a baby name app.  Jamie and I could only agree on ONE name out of thousands for the last baby.  I figure I may as well get started early this go around.  I marked a few names as possibilities and Jamie nixed everyone of them on our drive home from Memphis.  This is going to be painful!!!  We did decide on a temporary name for the new baby.  Ducky.  Yep.  Ducky.  We spent our weekend at The Peabody Hotel where ducks swim in the fountain of the lobby.  We missed Maddie terribly when we saw the ducks and we sent her pictures and videos.  I told Jamie we needed a nick name and he said "I think we should name it Ducky.  We were just at the Peabody, Maddie loves ducks  It should be Ducky."  I said "awe, I like that" and that's how Ducky came to be.