Hey everybody, James here, the other half of this baby making team. Anyone who knows me (or is my friend on facebook for that matter) can tell you how excited I am for this baby... for our little Bean. Today, that excitement increased a hundred fold for two simple reasons.
1. We saw the baby on the ultrasound.
Bean had its back to us, but the little blob we saw on the screen was definitely a forming baby, with a head end, a rear end, and little arm and leg buds.
2. We heard a little heartbeat.
Well, not so little. 170 beats per minute.
As I heard the sound of our baby's heartbeat for the first time, I was overwhelmed. It was suddenly more real to me. There was a baby there. A living Bean (see what I did there) that I had a part in creating. A new life that I'm going to have the privilege of helping to raise from the day it is born. First cry, first laugh, first tooth, first steps... and that's just the beginning of the list.
This is something I've known that I've wanted for a LONG time and was getting to the point where I was wondering if it was ever going to truly happen. We'd been trying for over a year less than successfully, and I was starting to resign myself to the fact that we were going to have to be the best aunt and uncle ever... which we still plan to be, but this is a different league entirely.
We are now (and have been for exactly nine weeks) responsible for the safe upbringing of a child. BEST JOB EVER. I can't wait.
-James
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