The 11 week mark was an exciting one! My mom brought the heart rate monitor home from work and over to our house. We were on the hunt for the heart beat and we found it! Mom was surprised how high up the baby was already?!?!? Maybe I am farther along than 11 weeks?!?! Who knows! It was so much fun to have my mom and dad there with us to hear the first sounds of life from our little one! The heart rate was in 178 beats/minute, which seems fast...maybe a girl?!?!
I never knew all the sounds the inside of your body makes! It was so amazing to be able to hear all of the inside workings of my body. Hearing the rush of blood in the placenta and knowing that it is giving life to our baby is so cool. It is still unreal to me that a human is living inside of me...kind of sci-fi!
We shared the big news with all of our extended family, co-workers and friends this week which was so much fun! The reactions were across the board...tears (extended family), utter shock (Stacey's friends...we are good deceivers!), giddiness (Joel's students and fellow teachers) and all around excitement from everyone!
Telling the girls at Crazy Horse might not have been the best idea, but it was the only time that worked. Everyone in the restaurant was looking over at us wondering what was going on and what all the screaming was about! In general the girls were super shocked...we had been playing up that we would be waiting for a while just so we didn't always have to be answering questions about when we were thinking of having kids. Apparently it worked! It felt like a huge weight was lifted telling my closest friends though. We were so scared someone was going to spill the beans accidentally to them. It was such a great night sharing our news with them!
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