Lightning Bean

The name Lightning bean came about because Paul wanted me to describe what it felt like to be pregnant. Trying to explain I told him the only thing I felt were little bolts of lightning flashing in my stomach (uterus). Hence, our bean became Lightning Bean. That of course, was right around 4 weeks along. The baby of course, was only 2 weeks in the making since they chart pregnancy from your last cycle and not the actual conception.

Well since then, when I hit about 9 weeks I began to get nauseated, but only at night. It would hit right at 4:00 or 5:00 every evening. I tried to load up on as much food as possible in the day, becasue I knew there wasn't a thing I'd be able to eat come 4:00. Poor Paul would come home each night looking for dinner. He'd have to heat up whatever was left over, or whatever I had made that afternoon (before 4:00 on days I worked from home). But then he'd have to eat it in the next room because the smell was too much for me.

Today I am 13 weeks and 6 days. I saw my doctor last Friday and she used a doppler to hear the baby's heartbeat. It was 165 which is just perfect! It was kind of funny though because every time she'd find the heartbeat, we'd hear it for a second and then we'd hear a "swoosh". The doctor said that was the baby moving. So she'd have to move the doppler around again to try to find where the baby went. As soon as she'd find the heartbeat again on the opposite side as the last try, there would be another "swoosh". It took a while to get the baby to stay still so we could hear the beat for longer than a second. So...LIGHTING BEAN seems to have been a good pick to describe this little one.

I am posting two ultrasound photos. The first one is of Lightning Bean at 6 weeks. Paul and I got to see the heart beat and that was about all there was there, a little heart. The second ultrasound is at 8 weeks. The round circle is the placenta and next to that our Lightning Bean looks just like a little gummy bear standing straight up in frontal view. You can mostly see the eye holes and the belly button area. Lightning Bean gave us a pose.