Chimichanga!

Introducing:  Chimichanga!

Little Chimichanga made her/his ultrasound debut this morning, with a lovely heart rate of 119, measuring right at 6 weeks 4 days and looks ravishing with his/her perfectly sized yolk sac - the accessory every embryo is sporting these days.  And the poor thing is already facing second child syndrome, as the picture I'm posting here is just a picture of the ultrasound, rather than the scanned image I've always done in the past.  I will try to do better next time.

After the ultrasound was complete, LB (who was nice enough to come with me for my early morning scan) and I walked around to the nurses station, where my RE was waiting for me on the phone. He'd been called out of town unexpectedly due to family illness, but still wanted to tell me congratulations himself.  

It was so amazing, that second I saw the little heartbeat flickering.  Suddenly it all seemed very real - as bad as I've felt, I've been having a hard time really wrapping my mind around the fact that I could drive to Atlanta and have an embryo put inside of me, and that would really get me pregnant.  But it has!  It really worked!

It's amazing how much I already love that little speck and flicker on the ultrasound that's measuring all of 7mm or so.  I want to wrap my arms around it and squeeze like I do Finn.  Which is ridiculous, so I've settled for rubbing my lower abdomen repeatedly today.  So repeatedly that I've got to stop before someone actually asks me if I'm pregnant, and I have to spill the beans before I'm ready.

My due date is February 10, 2014.  That's a long time from now, but in a few years I'll look back and feel like it all passed too quickly.  While it's pretty hard to savor nausea and fatigue, I'm going to try to enjoy every second of this pregnancy that I can.  I really did love being pregnant the last time; I hope I love it even more this time around.