Baby Size: Brussels Sprout
Food Cravings: Mandarins
Strongest Symptom: Morning Sickness
Today, baby is 11 weeks and 2 days, and still wearing normal clothes. Stomach is starting to feel heavy, but it’s not uncomfortable to wear my jeans buttoned. Which is great, cause I still don’t remember where I put my button extenders or belly band… Morning sickness still has a good grip on me, but not as bad as before. I now sometimes gag when I cough, so that’s exciting..
So, after going back and forth for a couple weeks — between worrying about baby, and thinking everything’s fine — I finally got to hear the heartbeat! I didn’t get a flat number for the heart rate, but I recorded it for hubby and used that to calculate the rate myself. I’m going with 155, nice easy number to remember. It’s between 150 and 156, and 153 doesn’t sound as good as 155. According to the old wives tale, baby will be a girl because the HR is above 140. But according to a web site that uses averages based on the gestational age, baby will be a boy because the average at this age is 166. Dreams are still 2 to 1 that it’s a boy. And I just can’t shake off that first dream, with my angel baby, that one just seems like it’s gotta be right. It came at the point where I was getting worried about the baby, and I just feel like my angel baby wanted to reassure me that he’s watching out for his little brother <3
Anyways. Tearing up at work, I gotta stop this. If you haven't heard your baby's heartbeat yet, it is seriously amazing. I might invest in a doppler for home, just so we can hear it whenever we want.
