I have some great news, dear Readers. There appears to be a living thing in my belly, and it's not a tapeworm. It's a miniature person! More info and observations to come, but briefly:

I'm just past the 14-week mark, which puts my due date at March 3rd of next year.

I've had quite enough of the morning sickness, thank you very much.

We heard the baby's heartbeat today, and it was really fast, kind of like techno music. Very cool. Incidentally, the ambient noise from the sonography makes it sound like you're in a submarine, waiting for the depth charges to drop.

Oh, and you may have noticed that there's a new feature on the sidebar of my blog. It's a week-by-week pregnancy tracker, and you can toggle through it by using the right and left arrows. Neat, huh? We'll do our best to keep it updated, and by the end there should be enough pictures so that you can cycle through really fast and make the whole pregnancy look like a freaky stop-motion video. (Think Gumby.)

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