10 Week Check-Up

Today was my first "normal" appointment. It was the appointment that I've been waiting for. The one that all my friends talked about but I had never experienced before. I like to call it the "In-and-Out" appointment. I went IN to the doctors one minute and came OUT a few minutes later. Today was just a blood pressure, weight, listen to the baby's heartbeat, quick appointment. All of my other three appointments were long and drawn out.

Today was GREAT! Dr. Apgar came in and he put the little heart monitor thingy up to my stomach and said, "Listen! That's your baby's heartbeat! Oh, now that's YOUR heartbeat! Oh, there's your baby's again. Do you hear it?"

I did hear it, and it was the most wonderful sound ever. The only thing that went through my brain was, "There's a little miracle inside of me!" How kind of God.

Dr. Apgar shook my hand and said, "Congratulations! Once I hear the heartbeat at 10 weeks, there's only a 1% chance of having a miscarriage. You should be good to go, Renee!" Also, my hormone levels that were down during my first appointment several weeks ago are now up and everything is going very well, praise God!

Also, a HUGE praise (especially since I'm back in school-mode now and have double the students that I had last year.....28 this year) is that I have had no signs of morning sickness or even tiredness yet. And I'm almost out of the first tri-mester. Wow! How the weeks fly by. It's so true how all of the sudden I start measuring my life in "weeks." I think that God has been gathering up buckets and buckets of grace just for me and saving it to pour out on me these past 10 weeks. It's been incredible how I've been able to carry on with normal life since the beginning. God's grace is amazing.