We heard the heartbeat!!

We had our second Doctors appointment today and were able to hear our little one's heartbeat!!! It definitely made everything seem a bit more real.... finally :) The Dr first found the heartbeat on the far right side of my body, then lost it, and found it again on the middle-left side. We've been calling our little one "monkey" for awhile (partly because it's just weird to call our baby "it"), and it looks like that nickname truly fits him/her. The heartbeat was 168 beats per minute which our Dr was pleased with. Everything else seems to be right on track. I was hoping we would be able to find out the sex of the baby next appoinment, right before we leave for vacation, but it's looking like we won't find out until the beginning of August. Bummer! The morning sickness has been a little out of control lately, but I was given a prescription today to try and help with the nausea and vomiting. I'm 12 weeks along tomorrow so I'm hoping that the end of being sick is just around the corner. We are already dying to hear the heartbeat again, and are pretty tempted to buy a doppler so we can hear it any time we want. It truly is an amazing sound.