The first 11 weeks

These last 11 weeks have been full of ups and downs. On May 2nd, two pregnancy tests confirmed that we are indeed expecting a little one. Being new at this, we assumed the next step would be to contact my normal doctor and confirm the pregnancy. The doctor confirmed that we were pregnant, and based on dates should be about 4 weeks. She scheduled us for an ultrasound because she had some initial concern about the symptoms that I had been experiencing.
At our ultrasound, we were expecting to see about a 5 1/2 week old baby, but found what would be normal development for 4 weeks. This was very upsetting, the technician told us that we would most likely miscarry since the baby wasn't developing. With this news, and the way it was delivered to us, we decided to switch doctors.
We were referred to Michelle Delorit with Evergreen Hospital. Dr. Delorit explained to us, that we may just be off on our dates, and that she would like to do at least 2 ultrasounds before determining the viability of the pregnancy. On May 21, we were able to see the heartbeat for the first time and on May 28th, we were able to see it even stronger. Dr. Delorit confirmed that we were only off on our dates, and that we had no need to worry because everything looked healthy just as expected.
Our next checkup wasn't until June 17th (which would put me at just over 10 weeks with the adjusted dates) showed a very healthy baby, developing right on track. Both Scott and I feel so blessed and couldn't be happier with this confirmation. Finally with this news, we felt the confidence to begin to tell people and start enjoying the experience rather that worrying about it.
So here we are at week 11 and feeling great. Most of my morning sickness was experienced between weeks 6 and 9, and seems to have faded away a little. I am still extremely tired at all time and battling occasional headaches. My baby bump, is slowly starting to make it's appearance, making it harder each day to squeeze into my normal pants. I'll be sure to post some pictures and keep everyone to date along our journey.

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