Hearing the Heart Beat for the First Time

As we've said earlier, up until now the pregnancy thing still feels a bit surreal.  Amy isn't really showing and the only sure sign that she is pregnant has been her nausea issues that force her to eat every hour.  I think this visit however popped that bubble for me.  The purpose of this visit was to go over any questions we had and to check the babies heartbeat.  Amy's pregnancy is a very low risk one which is very good to know.  The only thing we have to be careful of is that we're different blood types (O+ for me O- for her).  This can be an issue because the body doesn't like different blood types (hence why we can only take certain types of blood).  So if the baby happens to be my blood type, during the birth when the baby comes out her body could think that foreign blood is in the system and form antibodies against it which would make future pregnancies problematic (I'm not a doctor so this is just my understanding of it).  With a shot at about 28 weeks though she'll be good to go and this won't be a problem.  So we're quite thankful that this is the worst thing we have to worry about.  Anyways, when the doctor started moving the instrument around Amy's belly she had a hard time finding the heartbeat (which made me freak out for the smallest of seconds) but it turns out our baby is just a squirmer (must get it from his/her mother).  When she finally got the baby to be still the heartbeat was strong and clear.  We had both been talking and joking up to this point, but when we heard the heartbeat we both fell silent.  We really do have a living baby growing inside.  For me the surreal bubble definitely popped, funny how the tiniest things can do that in life.