I’ve started the baby blanket! I think I’m making very good progress. I don’t know if I like it yet though.

And this morning I had my regular third appointment at the hospital. The nurse found the baby’s heartbeat right away. She didn’t even have to search. She got it the first time she put that listening thing on my belly. Last time at our regular appointment she couldn’t find the baby’s heartbeat. She searched and searched and finally had to bring in an ultrasound machine. The baby must have grown a lot from that last visit for the nurse not to have to search around this time. She also measured my belly but I didn’t think to ask how I measured.

When we got home I was reading my weekly iVillage newsletter about the baby. And it said that she’s big enough now where Alan can put his ear to my tummy and hear her heartbeat. So Alan took out a stethoscope so I could try to listen but they were so tight I think the beating I heard was the sound of my blood rushing through my head. Oh well. I’ll try again another time. Now I’m concentrating on trying to figure out when the baby is kicking.