7w3days, awards and stuff

Today I am 7 weeks and 3 days pregnant. I had my follow up ultrasound today and all is well with the little bean. I had a scary moment lying on the table when my doc and his intern were studying the screen intently and looking puzzled and I was sure that there was no longer a fetus in there. Then they had to reassure me that there was indeed a fetus in there with a heartbeat pumping away and turn the screen to face me. I could see the bright spot flashing steadily, with a blob around it, but it was terribly fuzzy. (hence their puzzled expressions). They gave up trying to measure the little bugger after several minutes to get the heart rate (a respectable 152 bpm), and then had to go back to try and measure again. Eventually they got a decent measurement of 7w3d, right on target, but the pictures they gave me are so terrible that they are hardly worth having. Seeing the heartbeat again was wonderful, though, and well worth the painful prodding.


I have also been given an award. I would like to thank Pink Lip Gloss and Prenatals and Greetings from Nowhere, NM for this award:

I am a little fuzzy with the rules, but I think I have to state 7 things about myself and then give the award to 15(?!) bloggers and tell them that I've given them the award. Well...here goes nothing :)

1. I am a 14th generation American and I can trace at least one ancestor back the 11th century in England.

2. My husband and I met when we were both working at the Stap.les distribution center. (They pack up the orders that come in from the 1-800 number and ship them out overnight). He was working a Summer job and I was saving up for Graduate school.

3. My house was burned down by a drug addicted arsonist when I was 10 years old.

4. I play the flute. I was a marching band geek from when I was in 7th grade until I graduated from High School. Our marching band had a ton of respect though. We won both national and international awards.

5. I had a giant fibroid that was roughly the size of a grapefruit. I had to have it surgically removed and it benched me from ttc efforts for over a year. It was named 'Nessie, creature of the black lagoon'.

6. My favorite job was working at a living history museum. I cooked over an open fire, set type and worked a hand powered press, gave garden tours, and showed thousands of people where the restrooms were.

7. It took my husband and I 6 years of trying to conceive before we took home our twins. After that it took 4 more rounds of IVF to bring home my daughter and to get pregnant with this bean. I have officially been with my RE longer than I have been with any other doctor except my pediatrician as a child. He actually had a tear in his eye when I left his office today.

Now for the blogs. I nominate....

Everybody in my reader! I want to be more specific but I have to stop writing this RIGHT NOW so I don't have time to work out the hyper linky love. I'll get the hang of this, I promise.