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.