Week 7: Heart Starts to Beat

During our first checkup, we were told to come two weeks after so we can check the development of my pregnancy and see the heart starts beating. Since then we are doing our countdown by the number of folic acid tablets I've taken. Finally the day had arrived. Since my habibi can't take a leave as often as I can, he planned to sneak out of his office for a while to see our next ultrasound. It's a good thing that the hospital is just a 5 minute taxi ride from his office. Aside from the ultrasound I'm excited to see my true OB this to check on me.

Once in her office, she started to read to us the result of the sperm analysis that my hubby did before we went back to Philippines. As agreed, my OB would call me for the result so I won't need to come to the hospital for it. Unfortunately she wasn't able to contact me for my phone was unavailable. She thought we were there to consult for a fertility work up. She was so surprised when I told her that we're already pregnant! She didn't see anything on her notes. Apparently, it was on the next page of my record book. We all had a good laugh about it.

She did an ultrasound to check the baby. We're so happy that we can now see something inside the sac! I'm definitely pregnant! Aside from that we saw the beating heart of our baby! I asked if we can hear it. We almost didn't get to hear it for the machine she used is old. But our baby wanted to show off so he let us hear it. It's a bit faint to hear but my OB assured us that the baby's heartbeat rate is normal. That's good enough for me. We are again scheduled for another checkup one month after. It's a long wait!!! Below are new pix and the video of the heartbeat of our baby. For the video, hear closely when you get to 8-10 seconds and 20-24 seconds period of playtime.

One Answered Prayer!

We received the fruit of our prayers last night.

We bought two test kits last Monday to apease our boggling mind if we made it or not. I insisted to take the test at night thinking that we'll just sleep over it if the result is negative. Excited and afraid we got up to do the test. The test says to dip the stick into the sample for five seconds then lay it on flat surface and the result may be read after one minute. So we both counted, "1001,1002,1003,1004,1005"! As soon as the stick started to do its works, I looked away scared to see the result. Then in about 10 seconds JayR jumped about 3 feet away and shouted something like "Yes! Positive! Thank you!" I just stood for awhile shocked watching him. Then I looked at the result and the lines were so clear! I still can't believe my eyes! It really is positive!



Then we hugged! :D Immediately I called my mother to get online so we could chat! Then I showed it to her! She was elated! Then we called JayR's parents then my father. They were all happy as expected.

We couldn't sleep that night! We tried but we just can't! We closed our eyes with big smiles on our faces literally!!! I think I got to sleep at around 2:30am already. Then our alarm went off at 7:30am. I got up to prepare breakfast. I was shocked to see my habibi got up with me! Hahaha! I tried to ignore him and went straight to the kitchen. I looked at him and asked him what time did he woke up. He won't say but I knew he woke up earlier than I did for the lights on the restroom are still on! hahaha! Apparently he woke up every hour that night! Talk about excitement!

We both skipped work today to go see my OB. Unfortunately, my OB was on leave so I just asked for any lady doctor available. We had an ultrasound to check if the baby is inside my womb or not. Fortunately it is. Here are the first pictures of our baby! We'll come back after two weeks to hear the heartbeat!