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Been thinking of changing the name of my main blog to "Barefoot, Pregnant and in the Kitchen Witch..."

Here's my temporary blog - I created it just so I could have a place to write about this pregnancy until I felt ready to share it with more than family and a couple of friends.

I'm at 11+ weeks, heard the heartbeat again last night, and I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut anyway about this, so....

And the beat goes on...

Had my check up for the month last night. Spoke with my doctor a few minutes first on how I'm feeling and all that, glad to be getting over this sore throat/cold/whatever it is...

Time to hop up on the table...she said since it's still relatively early in the pregnancy, not to worry if we couldn't hear a heartbeat today. The fetus is so small at this point, sometimes the Doppler won't pick it up.

I said that was fine (lie). A squirt of warm gel and we could hear some static - indications that, baby or not, other things are always happening in there...

And then we heard it. It's a kind of wavy, swishy, pounding sound. Probably all the fluid that does that...but anyway, there it was - the brass ring of every visit (at least in my experience) - the heartbeat. Nice and strong.

As soon as I heard it I relaxed completely. I know it's still early - I know there are no guarantees, I know anything can happen. But I'm nearing the end of the first trimester, and so I'm beginning to feel like things are safer.

Worrying all the time takes all the fun out of being pregnant. And since we only plan to have two children, this will be my last opportunity to enjoy pregnancy.

So I plan to.