Baby Helms to Be: First Doctors Apt.

Wow this is harder than I thought it would be. No wonder I was never good at keeping a journal. Better late than never right?

We had our first doctors apt. on Tuesday Jan 19th (yes I am a little late) and what an experience that was. Tim was working nights in the hospital so the poor guy had to stay up to make our 10:00 apt. after working from 5:30pm to 7:30 am. After filling out a ton of paper work that included asking us if we were related in anyway (GROSS!), we were able to go in for our first ultrasound at 9 weeks, 6 days. Since it is so early they of course have to do a transvaginal ultrasound (you can use your imagination to think about what that is). It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. And best of all we got to see BABY! Man, he/she was really moving around in there and the heartbeat was going a million miles per hour! It was the coolest thing I have ever seen and very surreal to think that a person is growing inside me. So here is the first picture of what we call "BABY". As Tim said in an email to our families "big ears, big belly, no butt a Helms for sure".

Overall the doctors apt. was a good experience, except for the gallons of blood they took from me. The doctor was concerned that the lining of my uterus in one spot was a little thin, so they sent us to a radiologist to double check that they baby had implanted in the correct spot. Sure enough the baby was in a great location and very healthy. They will continue to monitor the thickness of my uterine wall (I'm sure you all wanted to know that). Does anyone know of any good uterus strengthing exercises? We will keep you posted. We go in for our next apt. Jan 29th. Here are some updated pics, and I look HUGE! I swear I am not that big all the time, I must have just eaten or something.

Bouncer, "the ham", wanted to be in all the pics so we are getting ready to perform one of his greatest tricks!