I wrote much of this blog in hindsight… I backdated posts so that the timeline of the baby stuff started appropriately when we seriously started trying – when we realized that waiting for an accident to happen wasn’t going to work. I wrote about the various methods we used while attempting to be proactive about fertility. [...]
I guess we’re just going to have to get used to being a normal, pregnant couple*. Elizabeth had a checkup with Dr. Clinton on the 19th. At first, the nurse put us in a room that didn’t even have an ultrasound machine. She said that Dr. Clinton would check the heartbeat with a Doppler, but a [...]
Our first attempt at listening failed; after about 30 minutes of trying, I gave up. Try as I might, I couldn’t find a recording of a baby’s heartbeat online, hoping to find what I should be listening for. I did a little reasearch and found that we were probing too high on the belly. Next [...]
From the first time we were pregnant in 2007, I’d read about how you can rent/buy a home doppler and listen to your baby’s heartbeat whenever you’d like or whenever your wife lets you spread green goo on her belly. Of course, we never made it that far the first or second time Elizabeth was [...]
Okay, apparently those two bonus weeks that I like so much when you first find out you’re pregnant don’t really get you into the second trimester sooner. Offhand, I’m thinking the “12 week” significance that sticks in my head is about getting out of the danger zone, the point in which a risk of miscarriage [...]
