What’s Your First Best Pregnancy Moment?
Posted by Laurie
If you’re reading this you’re probably pregnant and looking forward to your due date because the greatest (or certainly the most powerful) memory will be of the actual birth experience itself. But during those 280 days or so before the arrival of your beautiful baby, many things will happen that will become permanently etched in your memory.
One of my favorite things to talk about with my husband now are our best moments during my pregnancy. I encourage you and your mate to enjoy a similar conversation. I’ll share my first best moment with you and I hope you will take a minute to share yours with me.
My first best moment
Mine was definitely seeing the heartbeat on the ultrasound. Filled with increasing anxiety and fear as the ultrasound day approached, I had come up with every imaginable reason (thank you google!) why we might not see the heartbeat. I was preparing myself for anything. I entered the examining room, positioned myself on the exam table and waiting. Then my doctor entered the room and as the instrument was inserted my husband and I held hands in silence waiting for the image to appear on the screen. 
My OB/GYN started pointing out my uterus and my ovaries as if this was the perfect time for a science lesson on reproductive organs. For a few seconds I thought, “maybe since he’s calmly pointing out my organs it means that he hasn’t seen anything wrong yet.” A few seconds later he continued by pointing out the location of my fallopian tubes. At my breaking point, I exclaimed, “Enough, enough about my body. Where’s the baby? Where’s the heartbeat?”
“And there it is!” he said. “There’s the embryo.” I begged to know, “And the heartbeat? Do you see it?” “Yes, it has a nice heartbeat.” A nice heartbeat. A nice heartbeat. Thank you God. It has a nice heartbeat. The words took affect like a drug, lifting my fears and anxieties. My husband squeezed my hand even tighter and we kissed. It felt like paradise. Right now, tears are welling up in my eyes as I remember that special memory and share it with you.
What’s your first best moment? Is it the same as your partner’s?
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Hearing the little heartbeat and then feeling her move inside me, which I had been longing for from the moment I heard that little heartbeat.