We went to the obstetrician today, like I mentioned earlier. We expected that our meeting wouldn’t be much of a deal since it was the first meeting but to our (happy) surprise, we heard that they already could make an ultrasound of the baby, even though it was just 8 weeks old.

The only problem was that Michelle’s health care plan starts april 1st and only then everything which is pregnancy related would be paid for so the question was if we wanted to this right away since it would cost about 186 dollar out of our own pockets. Now we had the choice between waiting for it or still go for it right away.. we did it anyways and could see the first pictures of our little one.

They looked at the images for the heart, which was already beating and with a speed of 169 beats a minute, pretty fast but apparently, this is perfectly normal.. I am unable to remember what Larissa had for a heartbeat (for those who don’t know her, she is my (almost) 12 year old daughter who lives in the Netherlands) when they checked on her but I guess it was about the same. They also measured the baby and according to the length, it was 8 weeks and 2 days old.. we calculated it and according to our calculations it should have been 8 weeks and 5 days but that is close enough I think.

Of course we asked for some pictures, here they are:

The obstetrician said it also, it looks a bit like a peanut, so yeah, the baby already has a nickname haha.

The white particle next to the baby, on the right side, is something the obstetrician called ‘yolk’… in Dutch that translates to eggyolk..

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Eggyolk? Nah, I think it is the human variation of it hahaha.. that would be something.. if we don’t watch it, they might tell us that we would have to hatch some eggs hahaha!!

Anyways, I thought it was all worth it, now we have at least the ultimate confirmation that there is indeed a little kid growing inside Michelle’s belly.

So at the end of everything we received the bill… 90 dollar… and I can hear you think “where did the 186 dollar go to?”… well, apparently we received an employee discount.. the mother of Michelle’s best friend works there and she is like Michelle’s second mother, Michelle also calls her her mother, for example, so it is really seen as family. So that was good news for us, it saved us almost 100 dollar and that is a lot of money.

Right, our next meeting is planned for April 17, 2009. We will then get some more examinations as it will then all be insured by Michelle’s insurance. We also get some other examination at a different location in a couple of weeks, we will receive a call for the appointment and this is for bloodtests and such, to see if there is a chance to get a baby with the downsyndrome, to see if it has an open back/spine, and a few more of these things.

More news about our little peanut will follow soon!

Tags: Family, Marriage, Medical, Pregnancy

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