After 3 home pregnancy tests confirmed that -yesindeed- a baby was here (August 31), it took nearly 2 weeks to get in to see the Doctor! I was a little panicked at how nonchalant they were about it, but my mom assured me that they’re in the baby business….they see this stuff every day so it’s no big deal (haha). I, on the other hand, being a first-time-pregnant-24-year-old, was quite tiffed at their lseeming ack of interest in my newest condition. 
Since my husband works during the day – and is paid hourly – it would have been too hard and costly for him to take time off to attend the appointment so he left me that morning with a promise that I would call him immediately afterward once it’s “professionally” confirmed.
I was still employed at the time, and there were only a few people who knew at that time – so I had to take off of work for a few hours that morning without letting the cat..uh..baby out of the bag. My biggest surprise at the doctor’s office was that they did an ultrasound immediately! That was very exciting. The moment my little blob of a baby, no bigger than half a centimeter at that time, came into view I was awestruck.
And then she turned up the speakers.
THA-THUMP! THA-THUMP!
His little heart was just a-beatin’. 172 BPM. I’ll never forget that moment as long as I live. I started to cry and the sheer overwhelmingness of it all and (embarrassed) joked to the doctor “This is the part where all the other women cry, right?”. She assured me it was.
I had been in a bit of a shock before then….still not quite believing I was actually, finally pregnant. But that little thing on the screen confirmed everything. I was only 6 weeks pregnant at the time, yet there he was, squirming on the screen with a heart beating loud and clear.
I swear, I do not know how abortionists can claim that it doesn’t matter if something with a heartbeat that loud lives or dies. Before now, even with my very conservative Christian background, I had straddled the fence on whether I was pro-life or pro-choice. This one day decided it all for me immediately. Just the sound of that little heartbeat influenced an opinion about abortion that I will carry with me as long as I live. No fetus-or embryo-deserves to die.
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