The end of ten weeks of pregnancy means it's time to meet the midwife! We were met in the waiting room by a sweet medical assistant, who ran us through the process that will be routine at all of our checkups: pee in a cup, get weighed, check blood pressure, go into the exam room. Easy enough.
We'd been in the room just a couple of minutes when our midwife came in... preceeded by a bump! She's 20 weeks pregnant herself, with her first child. Laughing, she said that she's been practicing for seven years, and finally "gets it" on a whole new level. She and M. jammed about ugly maternity clothes, the weird feeling of stretchy ligaments, and several mom-to-be books that were, frankly, offensive.
In all, we like her. A lot.
And Bean was quite obliging, when the midwife put the doppler to M.'s belly - she found the heartbeat right away. Of course, then Bean shifted, and it took another couple of minutes to find the heartbeat again, but it came through loud and strong at 178 beats per minute. Quite an active little one we've got in there! Both Bean and Mommy passed their exams with flying colors.
We got home, after running a few errands, to Bean's first package! Thank you, Auntie Janet!
How exciting!! And what a great connection with the midwife! Meanwhile,178 beats per minute sounded like you had a little hummingbird in there,a hover-bean? So I looked it up, and a resting hummingbird is at 250 beats per minute and at 1200 flying. We are truly a mighty nerdy bunch. Pity the poor Bean.
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