Quick stop in at the Midwife’s office today to try again to hear the heartbeat. Den met me there, as he wanted to hear it. I really didn’t think she was going to find it still, after hearing on wednesday how tipped my uterus still is. First thing she did was do a quick feel of my belly, she said, “Good growth this week!” Then she put the doppler on my belly, moved it around and… there it was!! Right dead-center above my pubic bone. It’s really cool to know that the baby is right there.

Den was enthralled. He said he was surprized, that he thought it would be more of a “thump thump” than a “whoosh whoosh”. He was imitating the heartbeat sound all the way out to the truck, and probably all the way home too. :)

Midwife said the heartrate was in the “130’s, 140’s,” and I think that was just her ballpark, she didn’t count. I’m willing to bet, since on friday it was 147, that it’s right around there still.

What a crazy thing huh? To hear the little heart beating away, knowing baby’s inside me. It’s still hard to wrap my brain around that. During ultrasounds it kind of feels like the baby’s in the monitor, not in me, you know? Even though I’m growing – I feel positively huge this week compared to last week – it’s such a different thought to comprehend that I have a little creature growing in me.

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I think I may indeed be getting a little bit of my energy back. Today when I got home from work I cooked dinner and cleaned the kitchen. It wasn’t a thorough cleaning, but I unloaded the dishwasher, put all the dirty ones in there, washed the sink out, ran the dishwasher, cleaned off the counter, swept and mopped the floor, etc.

Of course, then I went and had a nap, so…

But really? I’m starting to feel a little upset about the house. I want the house to be in order and finally working right – with stuff where it should be – when the baby comes. Yes I have like 6 months left. But there’s a lot to do… We need to start tearing down the panelling in our bedroom so we can paint and finally get this room looking like an oasis. I was so focussed on the baby’s room, but in reality we’re going to be spending a TON of time in our bedroom for the first few months. I would kind of like it to be a nice place to be.

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On to the waayyy TMI category. You’ve been warned.

I mentioned my previous intestinal trouble (I couldn’t go – for days), and then how it resolved itself (I went… alot). Well during that I noticed I was spotting… and not from my hoo-ha, if you know what I mean. Happened again today. Now I don’t think whatever happened down there is very bad, but I can’t say it’s all that comfortable to go right now.

All I keep thinking is – I guess it’s only going to get worse from here. Wheee.