Me: "So, there's just one, right?" Dr: "No, there's three. KIDDING! HA!"

So my little raspberry is doing quite well! Today, it measured at exactly 8 weeks, possibly 1 day. According to the internet I'm 8 weeks & 2 days, so we'll see. She did not confirm the due date as of yet, so we're still on for April 25.

It was the most amazing thing to see my tiny little raspberry with a very swiftly fluttering heartbeat... and then to hear it while I could see it was even more amazing. It was going strong at 180. I've been told I have an athlete on my hands. I think Fat Albert is the one to thank for this baby.

I immediately asked my dr if there was just one in there since I had 4 potential follicles for this pregnancy... she said, "No, there's three" and after a short pause, "KIDDING!" and started to laugh. I admit my heart stopped for a moment... she did tell me at the last follicle ultrasound that if I come back with triplets I can't be surprised. Haha. Luckily that isn't the case. So far, I have one super healthy baby in my uterus and I am quite pleased and feel more relaxed. My dr told me my chance of loss after hearing the heartbeat is significantly lower and that I'm on the right track. She let me know to stay on my Metformin through the rest of the 1st trimester to help things along and keep my chance of loss even lower. No problem!

Based on the super fast heartbeat and my instinct, I'm going to go ahead and predict that we're having a girl. I've been thinking I'll have a girl since before I got pregnant and felt it even more as soon as I found out about the pregnancy. The heartbeat makes me even more suspicious. I told my dr I had been checking the theory on that and she said it's not actually a theory, that it has been proven, however, early heartbeats tend to be faster. But she did say, "Girl!" Ha!

12 more weeks until we find out if we have a little Zoey or a Glenn #5 swimming in there. In the meantime, I have another dr's appt in 2 weeks for some blood draws and my dr said she'll use it as an excuse to do another ultrasound, hehe. Sounds good to me!!!

By the way, why did they take 5 (yes, 5) vials of blood from me before I left if I need to come back in 2 weeks for more? Really? I mean, come on. Leave me some blood, why don't you!!!