It's official! We're expecting our first baby!
We found out we were expecting during our trip to Washington for Thanksgiving. Coincidentally, it was the same morning another relative came over to announce that she was pregnant too...
Right now I'm nearly 14 weeks along and feeling great. I haven't dealt with morning sickness at all; I just get queasy if I don't eat every hour. So yes. I'm eating absolutely everything right now. And sleeping all the time. Oh, and growing in places I did not expect. Ahem.
We got to hear Baby Tuft's heartbeat two weeks ago. The midwife had to keep moving the Doppler around because baby was moving all over the place!
I have to be honest - I had always thought that when I found out I was expecting, I'd immediately experience this overwhelming feeling of love for the baby. That was decidedly not the case for me. I was happy, but it was all very abstract. It was hard to not think of the baby as more than a parasite - eating my food, making my body grow, messing with my hormones - when we heard that heartbeat though, suddenly it was all real. There's a human in there, and I'm growing it!
Since then our excitement has only increased. Baby Tuft, you are loved more than you know!