Today was a normal appointment for me with the OB\/GYN.\u00a0 However, it turned out to be quite exciting.\u00a0 I am at 10+ weeks and the heartbeat is usually consistently found somewhere around 12 weeks.\u00a0 The lovely nurse at my doctor’s office was skilled enough to find the heartbeat today.\u00a0 What an exciting sound.\u00a0 I remember hearing that first heartbeat when Quin was still unknown to us.\u00a0 It makes everything seem so real and so amazing. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Here’s a little info on fetal heart development.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The heart’s early development<\/strong><\/p>\n The fetal heart undergoes a considerable amount of growth very early in pregnancy. The most critical period of its development is between three and seven weeks after fertilization, when a simple heart tube assumes the shape of a four-chambered heart. In fact, the heart actually begins beating by the 22nd day of life (or the fifth week of a 40-week pregnancy).<\/p>\n I only wish I could post the sound of that heartbeat, but trust me, it was beating fast and strong. \u00a0<\/p>\n Psalm 139:13-16 \u00a0\u00a0For you\u00a0formed my inward parts;\u00a0\u00a0you\u00a0knitted me together in my mother\u2019s womb. \u00a0I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.\u00a0\u00a0Wonderful are your works;\u00a0my soul knows it very well.\u00a0My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,\u00a0intricately woven in\u00a0the depths of the earth. \u00a0Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your\u00a0book were written, every one of them,\u00a0the days that were formed for me,\u00a0when as yet there was none of them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a normal appointment for me with the OB\/GYN.\u00a0 However, it turned out to be quite exciting.\u00a0 I am at 10+ weeks and the heartbeat is usually consistently found somewhere around 12 weeks.\u00a0 The lovely nurse at my doctor’s office was skilled enough to find the heartbeat today.\u00a0 What an exciting sound.\u00a0 I remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}