Last Sunday, after we got back from camping for the weekend on Hood Canal, Rose noticed a little spotting so she called our midwife, Colette, and we came in that night to go for a checkup.  We were scheduled to meet with her on Tuesday but we needed to go in that night.  We wanted to see if Colette could find the heartbeat because if she could then everything would be alright.  She didn’t, but at 12 weeks there is a possibility that you may not hear it so not hearing it didn’t tell us much.  We decided to wait until the visit on Tuesday since there was nothing preventative we could do anyway.

Tuesday we went in to see Colette in the afternoon, Rose had been feeling okay and there had been no more spotting.  Colette tried to find the heartbeat again and didn’t, although she thought she did at one point.  She also said that Rose’s uterus was too low for 12 weeks.  With not hearing the heartbeat and the uterus being low we decided to go to Babycatchers where we could see an OB who would do an ultrasound.

We drove directly there and got in very quickly.  As soon as the doctor put the ultrasound thing on her belly she saw the baby, which is doing fine.  She did ask if Rose had had pre-term labor before, she knew because of the position of the uterus.  The baby is moving around just fine, we saw the tiny heart beating, and it measured right at 12 weeks, which was exactly where Rose was on Tuesday, to the day.

The baby is still to tiny to tell if it is a boy or girl but we are still debating on whether we’ll find out or not.  We’ll keep everyone updated with the baby news as it happens.