Week 7: Your tiny little heart

This morning, we saw the little heart beating on the monitor.

It was the most amazing experience and the best relief to what I went through the night before.

The weekend was beautiful and sunny. After lunch at 鼎泰豐 in Causeway Bay so I could get my fix on sweet and sour soup, Mic and I went to Kowloon Park to spend an afternoon lazing under the sun. It was just perfect, the temperature, the sun, and the breeze in the air, on a small but precious patch of grass (in Hong Kong!) for our closest experience to man made nature. We then parted so I could catch my tango movie. Since I was feeling fine the past few days I thought I could use a little more exercise, I decided to walk. It was only about an hour, on flat paved surface but I might still have overestimated my ability. The evening ended up with some bright bed bleeding and I was so scared I was in tears and thought I was losing the little K. A call into the nurse at night, she told us as long as there are no cramps we should try to rest the night and come in to see the doctor first thing on Monday.

Mic has just been amazing every single day. He takes care of me by putting snacks on the night stand and scatter grapefruit around the house (that is my savior to combat queasiness these days), and he calms me down at my moments of panic. Through him I am trying to learn to make the highs a little less high and the lows a little less low. I often joke about his lack of emotion, but at times like last night I actually really appreciate his ability to isolate the things we can control and things we can't. In our future roles at parents I am sure we will need a lot of that to get through life.

Anyway, glad that scan showed that little K is developing well and on track, and with that vote of confidence I decided to break the news to my family a little ahead of the end of the first trimester.