Was anyone else super terrified/paranoid before your wife's first ultrasound?

I do have to ask: what would compel you to troll this thread?

WTF are you talking about?

Your tapeworm comment. Unless, you genuinely believed that that original troll post was actually me. In which case, I'm sorry to hear you believed such a thing to be true. I hope all the best for you.

UPDATE!

Heard the little one's hearbeat yesterday by doppler at 13 weeks at the doctor's office. A strong 155 or so. Most beautiful thing I've ever seen!!

Thanks for all the comments here folks!

I wasn't worried at all, just excited...at least until the technician couldn't find the heart beat and my daughter wasn't moving around. Just when I was about to have a complete f*c**ng melt down in front of my wife and the ultra sound technician they found the heart beat and the baby started being a little more lively. Textbook pregnancy and delivery, here we are 9 months later and we are all happy as could be.

Long story short...don't stress about it, its not good for you and especially not your wife and child.

that is great

i hope someday to meet a woman and get married and do that too

I hope you do too, brother.

Congratulations! That's a joyful noise that only those who've heard can understand.I did want to say that in my previous post I didn't intend that you quit praying once that baby is here, but you do get a sigh of relief and enjoy that time, before you freak out once again!On your wife's symptoms, they'll change as quickly as the wind changes direction. That is normal! However, if she starts throwing up repeatedly in the 3rd trimester get her to the doctor/hospital ASAP. That's a bad symptom late in the game, my wife had HELLP syndrome, and it about killed her. Don't take "it is nothing to worry about" as an answer. I ended up with a 3 lb 14 oz baby boy in the NICU for 12 days and a wife in the hospital for 5 days, but I ended up getting them both home alive and healthy because I wouldn't accept "everything's fine."I've got 2 healthy kids now and the second one was as routine as could be. There is good reason to pray and give thanks, continuously.

scared as scared can be! wrote:

UPDATE!

Heard the little one's hearbeat yesterday by doppler at 13 weeks at the doctor's office. A strong 155 or so. Most beautiful thing I've ever seen!!

Thanks for all the comments here folks!

People make such a big damn deal about pregnancy. Humans have been popping babies out in caves and huts for tens of thousands of years, man the eff up.

Get the eff outta here wrote:

People make such a big damn deal about pregnancy. Humans have been popping babies out in caves and huts for tens of thousands of years, man the eff up.

People have been torturing and murdering other people for tens of thousands of years. Those damned Kurds being slaughtered by ISIS oughta just man the eff up.

The old fashioned way wrote:

I have three kids ( the oldest is 21) and we never even let them do an ultra sound on any of them. We didn't know the sex, if they were "all right", or anything. Everything worked out fine.

We figured we weren't aborting them if there was something wrong, so there was no point in blasting them with ultrasound.

"Blasting them with ultrasound..". What an idiot. Cosmic radiation from 2 billion light years away does more damage. I have 4 kids and 3 grandkids. Had ultrasounds all the way on all 4. It's good. Don't worry so much. Information is good.

This is an article about how it can feel to become a dad. Its a fair bit of reading and you will have to pay for it. But It's well worth it. I found on my hospitals intra net waiting for surgery to start and was blown away by how accurate i feel they reflected "the emotional roller coaster"

I'll give you a link to a swedish fulltext so you can just googletranslate if you want, but its really worth to pay for it.

Good luck!

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocn.12355/abstract

http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:428208/FULLTEXT01.pdf

To-be dads worry. That's what we do because we don't have an ounce of control over what is going on.

Are you going to find out the sex in advance? I've got 3, we never did, best decision ever. Two girls...third was to be the last, the feeling when it was a boy was awesome.

Once we found out we were pregnant, we sang a song and said a prayer to the baby nightly throughout the pregnancy and still sing the blessing song with all three at bedtime.

As a new dad you have to be ready to control what you can control and not stress about what you can't. Our first was 6 weeks premature and spent 16 days in the NICU as she would regularly stop breathing on her own. Even when out of NICU, we spent 6 months with a 24hr monitor...I got almost no REM sleep during those months, always ready to hear the alarm and leap out of bed and shake her back alive. Our third had heart rate declines with each contraction, when he was delivered the cord was wrapped around his neck and he was blue. Nearly gave me a heart attack. But in the end, both are fine.

There is a ton that can go wrong with pregnancies. But usually it is fine. So enjoy the process unless there is actually something you need to worry about.

Nervous as hell every time my wife went in for an ultrasound. Nervous as hell each time she gave birth. Nervous as hell thinking about paying for college for 3 kids.