"Everybody's Got A Hungry Heart"

Bruce fans will immediately recognize that the title of this post is yet another lyric/title of a Springsteen song. My child is doomed. :)

Well, let's start with the "heart" part of that title, since that is most exciting. We had our doctor appointment today and we heard the heartbeat!!! How exciting! I knew that it would be fast, but I was not expecting how it would sound. The hubs has been telling people that it sounded like someone running through snow. (How appropriate that he brought running into it!). After the heartbeat, the doctor told us that we could feel comfortable sharing our news. He said that many people wait until the first trimester is officially over, but truth of the matter is, the risk of miscarriage at this point, now that there is a heartbeat, is not really going to change in the next few weeks.

That was all we needed to get out the cell phones. Of course, every single person we called did not pick up! UGH! PEOPLE WE HAVE BIG NEWS HERE! We did manage to talk to some of our friends and some family members that had not yet known, but I imagine the next few weeks will be busy. It is funny how many random people we have told in the past couple of days - for example we just freely were telling the Lowe's carpet woman and our waiter at dinner tonight. I think we just REALLY wanted to start telling people and these random people were "safe".

I also told the "big boss" today. He too was thrilled. He then told me to make sure my husband got real Cubans (as in cigars) when the baby came. ha ha ha (BCK, I thought you would appreciate this).

Ok, now to the "hungry" part of the title. I know - you're sick of hearing how hungry I am all the time. I stepped on the scale today and it was 7 lbs. heavier than normal. Now, normal is a little bit of a sliding scale since I don't routinely weigh myself, any given day could have a 5 lb fluctuation. For example, at the nurse visit on that same scale I was 145. Yesterday I was 147. I weighed myself on my friend's scale not to long ago and I was 137. Anyhoo - the doc asked what my pre-pregnancy weight was. I replied 140 since that is generally what I weigh. He replied, "ok so you've had a little bit of weight gain". Remembering the 20 lb. limit the nurse gave me, I responded, "Yes, I don't think Nurse P would be too happy that I"m already 1/3 of the way to her cut off point". My doctor started laughing. He then told me that he doesn't get too worried about weight gain and that given my stature, starting weight, health history, he told me that all other things constant, he probably wouldn't start worrying about me until I was over 60 lbs weight gain. SIXTY POUNDS! "As long as you aren't eating Culvers 3 times a day everyday and you are eating sensibly, I'm not concerned". I didn't tell him about the cheeseburgers :) I generally live by the principle if I am hungry I eat so I have continued to abide by this during pregnancy. I also think 5 of the 7 pounds are boobs.

True to form of the past week, I am up at 2:45 AM. I just had my "midnight snack" of a string cheese and spent the past 45 minutes tossing and turning so I gave up and turned on the computer. I think the insomnia is the thing that is driving me the most crazy. Good thing it is the beginning of a new month when all the magazines show up in my mailbox!