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“This might be a dumb question…” I said.
“No, no. There’s never any dumb questions. Ask away, now is the time to prepare so ask all the questions you can think of,” Doctor Reveena said.
“Can you gauge how big the baby will be this early on?” I asked.
Bless her, she kept a straight face while lightly tapping around for a thick vein in my arm. “No but once the four month mark comes around we’ll have a better idea of how big the baby will get before term,” she said. I nodded, then she wrapped a rubber band around my upper arm. She stuck the needle in sooner than I thought and made quick work of filling the vials and then removed everything and got a band aid on me quick.
“Okay, we’re up and running,” Joanna announced. The doctor did a vaginal exam and then Joanna rolled the ultrasound machine closer and just like in the movies and tv shows, squirted some jelly onto my lower belly and then pressed the wand onto it and started moving it around. At first there was a bunch of static on the screen.
“What are we looking for?” Josh asked. He was squinting at the screen just like I was.
“I’ll tell you when—okay here’s the uterus,” Doctor Reveena pointed to a small balloon outlined on the screen. “And that…is your little bean,” she said and pointed to a small blip near the top of my uterus. It was fluttering a little.
“Why is it like…” I tilted my head.
“That’s the heartbeat,” Doctor said happily. “I’d say you’re on your way for a healthy pregnancy Naomi,” she smiled at us. “Congratulations.” I was in shock, the baby already had a heartbeat. It was alive, a living bean.
I glanced at Josh and he was staring at the screen with just as much wide-eyed awe. “He’s really in there, huh?” he said. I nodded, unable to speak because I didn’t want to start crying. We were going to have a baby in eight months. Doctor Reveena asked me about my pregnancy symptoms and morning sickness. She told me what I could expect before I saw her again and she gave me a packet of information to read through. It had foods to stay away from, recommended sleeping positions, how to deal with my fluctuating hormones and a ton more stuff pertaining to the first trimester.
The doctor told me she’d call if the blood test showed anything to be worried about and pretty much sent me on my way. She and the nurse stepped out and I got dressed. When I pushed the curtain back, Josh was there to hug me. I wrapped my arms around his waist and hugged him tight.
“I know pregnancy is no walk in the park and I know it’s gonna hurt to deliver the baby but I’m so fucking excited for him or her to get here, Naomi,” he said. “If it’ll make you feel better, I’ll wear one of those pregnancy weights when he starts getting big and then I can maybe go to one of those doctors who do the birthing simulation,” he said. I laughed and then took his hand and led him towards the door.
“I’ll think about that one,” I said. We walked back to the waiting room and I made a follow up appointment before we left.
“So…what will we name him?” Josh asked.
“How do you know it’s going to be a him?” I asked. We got to the car and settled inside.
“Based off of what Amy said,” he said.
“There’s a higher chance that I could have a girl,” I said, though I really didn’t know the percentages. I based it purely off of the fact that my mom had two girls and Josh had a sister.
“Either way, if the baby looks like you even a little bit, that’ll be the cutest kid on planet Earth,” Josh said. I rolled my eyes at him but smiled. He pulled out of the office’s parking lot and I felt like dozing. Reveena’s office was almost thirty minutes away from my apartment.
“Have you spoken to your parents at all yet?” Josh asked suddenly. I shook my head. “Do you feel like just…calling them?” he asked. I shook my head again.
“If they want to talk to me ever again, they’ll call me,” I said in a clipped tone. I didn’t want to ruin a perfectly good moment with thoughts of my messy parents. Josh didn’t say anything else after that.
