6 Weeks and counting!

After my first week of morning sickness, I have to say it is all worth it!!! Today we got to see the baby!!!! This morning the doctor was able to find the fetal pole and it was breathtaking to see the tiny heart fluttering on the ultrasound monitor. The little one's heart is beating at 113 beats per minute, which is normal for this stage. The rate will increase to around 150 as the weeks progress and then slow a bit as we get closer to the due date. According to the crown-to-rump measurements today, we are actually about 6 weeks along instead of the original time we had figured of 7 weeks. We also confirmed that we are not having twins, thankfully there's only one baby in there! They have not moved the due date yet, because it is still too early to really tell, but if they do, it may put us closer to a Mother's Day baby!!! (For those of you who don't know, I was born on Mother's Day!)

I stand amazed that God would trust us with such an important role and we are both humbled at the thought of all that is going on and everything we must prepare for. Please continue to pray for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby boy or girl!!! And an extra prayer for the morning sickness to subside would be greatly appreciated - haha. :)

6 weeks

How your baby's growing: This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. You'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil bean.