Sorry I have been so lax in posting recently. I blame it on the bean that has been making me sick and just plain exhausted. However, we are approaching the end of the first trimester, so things should be looking up from here. For those of you that didn’t know, we are expecting baby #2 at the end of September and we are very excited. We’re looking forward to the blessing of this new addition to our family and to watching Amelie become a big sister.

Today we went in for our first appointment with our midwives and it went great. Since it’s still a bit early in the game (10.5 weeks), she wasn’t able to pick up the baby’s heartbeat with the doppler thing-a-ma-bob. I was kind of bummed out until she said she would just roll in a portable ultrasound machine! So, although we didn’t get to hear the heartbeat today, we did get to see the little bean and that was terrific. During the scan we could clearly see the little head and we watched it moving around, having a great time in there. And, most importantly, we got visual confirmation of cardiac activity. Yay! We thought we’d share the photo she gave us, even though it really just looks like a blob. The baby was much clearer during the actual scan. I think the head is the bigger blob on the left 😉 Just click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of the picture.

Well, we hope everyone is doing well and I promise to post more soon!