Our biggest secret - no longer a secret!

You may be wondering what took us so long to come back online and post again. (or you may be thankful that you had 2 months off). Whatever the case may be, we had a very good reason for not going online. It's hard to send messages to our family and friends without spilling the beans on the biggest secret around.


But that time has come and gone now, and we are happy to share with you the biggest news of our lives -

we are going to have a baby!


Tomorrow will be the beginning of my 13th week, and I am doing very well. We have confirmed that everything is just fine, and have also been able to hear the baby's heartbeat not once, but twice.

I absolutely refused to believe it at first, and had to take three pregnancy tests just to convince myself of the truth. After wanting this for so long, it's hard to acknowledge that it's finally happened!

But each test showed an immediate positive with absolutely no doubt, so I decided I'd better start taking it seriously :)




Two HcG blood tests from the doctor later, it was confirmed, there's a bun in my oven!

Our first OB Visit

Our first OB Visit was on May 8. Dr. Murillo did a check on our family history for anything she should know about, and then talked to us about what I've been feeling and how things have been going.

After going over a few things, it was time to do the first ultrasound :)

As far as ultrasounds go, I have to say I'm very impressed with mine. My little baby was very helpful in very clearly showing us his shape and form. (by the way, we are calling it a 'he' until we know for sure) I never know what I'm looking at in those blobs, but mine is pretty easy to make out.

Dr Murillo confirmed we were 8 weeks and 4 days pregnant, and said that our due date is going to be December 13, 2008. Another December baby!


Then we listened to the heartbeat and it really was as amazing as people say. I couldn't help but get all teary and Alberto laughed and took my hand in support.

I left the office with a lab slip for a ton of bloodwork to be done, all routine checks on me and the baby at the beginning of the pregnancy.

Our 2nd OB Visit

Yesterday we had our second appointment, and this is when we heard the heart beat again.



This time it was just an audio device, no video, and we had trouble finding him! The doctor called him 'a little stinker' and said that at this point in the pregnancy it's really easy for the baby to evade the sensor because he's still so small and has lots of room to move around.



After about a minute though, his heartbeat came through loud and clear. During one funny moment, she picked up both my heartbeat and the baby's heartbeat, so the room was filled with an odd kind of syncopation.


I also learned that my blood type is O negative, so I have to get a shot at 28 weeks to suppress antibodies that might reject the baby, just in case Alberto has a blood type that might not be compatible with mine and he passed that to the baby. Fun for me.



Otherwise, all of the bloodwork that has been done for cystic fibrosis and every other thing they tested for have all come back fine. I am due for the downs syndrome test next month.



We'll continue to post updates as needed so you can learn what's happening too!