Had my first appointment with the midwives today. I saw the trainee, which I think is great because this area needs more midwives. Poor thing had a hard time finding my cervix, which didn't surprise me because I can never get to it either. She confirmed exactly where I suspected my uterus was, and they also confirmed what I'd calculated my due date to be. I told them that I hadn't had any real morning sickness and they sort of shrugged.
After a harrowing minute of searching, the trainee finally found the heartbeat!!! They didn't tell me the heart rate, so I counted a ten second interval from the recording my husband took and figured the beats per minute to be 174.
Afterwards, when I was heading out to the lab to get my bloodwork done, my primary midwife said, "nice strong heartbeat. Sometimes when they say they haven't had any symptoms I think oh we're not going to find a heartbeat, but thankfully I'm wrong most of the time I think that."
In other news, they took blood out of my hand since they couldn't find a good vein in the crook of my elbow. Owie! My hand hurts. It's all purple and swollen.
The front office has to put a call in to the insurance company, but the bill from their office will either be $220 or nothing depending on it our copay portion subtracts from out $1000 deductible or not. Lab will bill separately as will the hospital, but so far we're right on target with the baby budget :) And I've got a crib, changing table, high chair, stroller and car seat picked out already on a Target registry. The big ticket items will run us just over $500 and I'll leave the smaller stuff to the baby shower attendees.
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