17 weeks 1 day

I had a feeling that I would wind up posting on here more than Kevin, but I guess since I'm the one experiencing everything right now it kind of makes sense.  Today I had another appointment with the midwife, nothing too exciting, just another check-up.  She always checks to see if I have questions (which I usually don't) and then we get to hear the heartbeart.  At the last appointment she was able to find the heartbeat right away, today was a different story.  It only took her a couple of moments to find it, but I thought it was for sure 5 minutes of searching and I think my own heart stopped beating until she found the baby's heartbeat.  Nothing to fear, baby swan was just hiding out, but I was happy to hear it beating away at 150 bpm.  I also got some bloodwork done for the Quad Screen.  It's a blood test that looks for indications of Downe Syndrome and Spina bifida.  It's not the most accurate test, but since we've opted against all other testing up until this point we decided to do it.  We should get the results back in a week or so, my midwife said she expects everything to be fine and that we have nothing to worry about.  So here's to waiting...

In other news I'm still not looking very pregnant, but my pants are definitely getting a little bit snugger as each day passes.  I think my mom is getting excited to have me start showing because about a week ago she went out and bought me some maternity clothes.  Her bag of tricks wasn't very successful, but we did get some great laughs out of the things I tried on!  Realizing that I'm not going to fit into my regular clothes too much longer, Kevin graciously accompanied me on a hunt for some maternity pants.  I hate shopping to begin with and trying to find things that were still cute, fit me now and had room to grow into was quite the challenge.  I wound up finding a few things and was so glad Kevin was with me to say yay or nay to the things I've tried on--it really meant to the world to me that he was willing to tag along and made the process so much better. 

Not a very exciting post, but just wanted to document a few of these experiences.  Let the countdown to the big ultrasound begin!