Hearing baby's heartbeat for the 1st time :)

So today during a routine check-up my doctor put the monitor up to my stomach and I could hear the baby's heart beat. Boy do they beat fast at this stage - you're looking at min. 120 beats per minute! I was so relieved! I haven't felt much movement so was starting to get nervous. It's funny the things that freak you out. I was worried that I'd had too hot a bath last week and the baby could've died from the high temperature. Seriously! I was honestly worried. I think sub-consiously I had absorbed a "nugget" I'd read in a book, that your baby can't regulate their own temperature up until a certain point in the pregnancy. Deep down, since that hot bath, which in reality I probably only sat in for 5 minutes, I was allowing a niggly worry to eat at me that I could've hurt the baby with my action. Sometimes reading books is bad for you!

In other news, I've PILED on the weight since my last visit to the doctor six weeks ago. Try like ALMOST a STONE!!! Through urine samples and a detection of sugar, I'm also at risk of gestational diabetes so I've been told to stay away from ALL SUGARY foods. Completely. Oh dear. All I can say is anything to stop this accelerated weight gain. The less I put on now, the lower the mountain I've to climb down from weight loss wise, when this baby arrives into the world. Everything that I currently define as a treat is vanished from my diet with immediate effect. I'm going to have to find new treats that excite me. Damm, damm and treble damm. This WILL be good for me in the long run, RIGHT?! Oh and in case I needed motivation, my doctor issued those convincing words "You don't want your baby to have excess weight.". No, you're right, I don't. And every time I even think about allowing anything sugary to pass my lips, I just need to think about this precious being inside me and go, this is for you kiddo, I'm doing this for you as well as for my figure at the end of all this. The thought's just struck me that from now on, I'll have to get used to think for more than myself. Chris and I will have a little baby to depend on us for all sensible decision-making soon.

23 weeks and almost 6 days! To be precise. Here's to a slower and steadier weight gain from hereonin. What's a good substitute for sugar anyone??!