Houston we have a heartbeat! I went in for what hubby jokingly calls my quickies. And they are. I sing in and before I can completely walk out of the bathroom door from emptying my bladder I am wisked off to a room with an u/s machine. I get told to strip from the waiste down. The moment my bare bum is on the table, and I am donning the sheet over my naked lap there is a tap at the door and in comes the fertility doc. Before I am fully laid down on the table she has the stirrups out and wand in hand. I have mentioned that the transvaginal u/s wand is a dildo like thing they stick up your foo foo to get a bird's eye view of your womb from the inside - right? Anyway, so she begins and immediately says, "We have fetal cardiac activity today!". Yay! She says I am measuring 6wk, 1day-ish. I tell her I am actually more like 6wk5-6days-ish if you go by my OPK ...or 7wk 2 days if you go by my LMP. No problem she says - at this point they are so little you can't really get an accurate result anyway. Ok. So I am free to make my first OB appt....at Balboa. Yuck. I really wanted to be seen at NTC, but I am informed they only have mid-wives and nurse practitioners. And while that is fine and dandy with me - the fact that I have ulcerative colitis that is active right now, I HAVE to be seen by a doc. Oh poo. But, on a good note she is referring me to the GI clinic to be followed, which I am greatful for because, truth be told, since I got preggo it has been like my innards are liquifying. Not at all pretty, or fun. So, I am told to go down to Balboa and make my first appt. for sometime in the next month (between 8-10 weeks) and they will do another, more detailed, dating u/s then. That is IF I can find a parking spot before my due date.