The Ultra(Nervous)Sound

Week Eight:
"Your baby’s fluttering heart would show up on an ultrasound performed this week. He or she is between 0.56 and 0.8 inches from crown to rump - or about the size of a grape - its liver is churning out large amounts of red blood cells, and will continue to until the bone marrow forms and takes over this function. Week eight marks the beginning of a very busy developmental stage: its face continues to change as the ears, eyes and the tip of the nose appear; the intestines start to form in the umbilical cord; and your baby's teeth begin to develop under the gums." Pregnancy Weekly

Well, I should hope that my jellybean's heart will show up on the ultrasound because I'm going today at 2:30 to hear it! There are no words to tell you how jittery I am right now. I'm seriously excited about this ultrasound, but also nervous as anything! All the "what if's" in the world are going through my mind right now. One of the big ones is "What if there are two or more jellybeans in there?!?" Holy cow. I don't even know what I'd do. (I don't want that to sound bad! I will be thrilled to have a healthy child and if I'm having more than one healthy fledgling, then Tim and I will make it work. It will be crazy, but we can do it.) Seriously though - I will have to have my momma come live with me if I'm having twins! Or Tim's momma. Basically, one of our momma's will have to live here. Maybe they can rotate turns.

Wish me luck! Hopefully I will be returning home with a photograph of some sort... Baby's first picture. Crazy!