120 beautiful flutters per minute

Today I am 6w1d, and I was having a little concern so I got to have an exam and an ultrasound tonight. Matt came with me and sat on a chair in the dark as the technician prodded around, and then...

We saw our little 6 week old sprinkle! I read it's the size of a grain of rice or a cupcake sprinkle - sprinkles sound so much more appealing. We saw sprinkle's perfect heartbeat, and heard it beating, a steady 120bpm. Matt cried, and I grinned like an idiot and am still grinning. We are having a baby!

Matt said on the way home he felt like the HPT made him feel like I took a test that told me I was getting a stomach virus, because that's all that happened. But then we saw our baby, and everything has fallen into place. We have a baby!

My next visit is week 8, on the 17th, and we should get a strong heartbeat then and hopefully will be able to share with non-family, I am just so excited to tell people, but I know that we have to be cautiously optimistic until week 12. I read that bad nausea means high hormones and a strong pregnancy, and that a strong heartbeat at 6-8 weeks reduces miscarriage rate to 1-5%.

Amazing!!