First Heartbeat

Week 6, Day 3: Had a sonogram this morning , and the clump of cells has officially become a baby. It has a heartbeat. The reproductive endocrinologist pointed it out on the monitor: "See that flutter? That's the heartbeat. She also told me how long I'd pregnant, which was three days less than I'd thought. Damn. I had been smug about only having had nausea once and no morning sickness—I thought it would show up by 6 weeks, and here I was on the 7th or so I thought—but I'm not out of the woods yet. And the two pounds I thought I'd gained in baby weight? The RE laughed. "No, not baby weight. You're just bloated."