An Odd Letter

We got a very strange letter in the mail yesterday that made us laugh. It was an authorization letter saying that I am approved for (1) Delivery and Total OB Care at our hospital. It is only valid from today until 7/8/10, so hopefully I can manage to have the baby in that narrow window before it expires. I did even know I applied, but I'm glad I got approved! Insurance companies are so weird, talking about having a baby like it's a gift card with an expiration date.

First Picture

Wow, I'm only 8 weeks along here and we already have a picture of the baby to post. It's the long white peanut-shaped thing on the right (only 1cm long), and the circle in the middle is the yoke that gives the baby nutrients. I didn't know that there would be a "yoke" involved.

The first visit to the doc's office was minimally traumatic and actually very exciting. I'm working on my issues with blood and needles and I'm sure I'll be a pro at the end of it all. Dan came and was very excited as we listened to the heart beat. It was so fast! It still seems so unreal.

Finding out

This is how we found out about Baby-G. I was pretty surprised to see the word "Pregnant" in the little window, but Dan was pretty sure what the results would be. It was a very unreal moment and exciting, but very overwhelming. We rushed out that night and bought a pregnancy book to make sure we weren't doing anything wrong yet.

Blogging?

So I'm doing this blog thing mainly because I've seen other people do it and I'm copying them. Plus it's one place were we can dump our pictures and news about this baby stuff and our friends and family who care about the little updates can take a peek. We are not living in the same town as many of the people who are important in our lives, so we just wanted to keep everyone in the loop.