17 Weeks And Beating

My baby-to-be is entering her 17th week yesterday. And this is what's happening according to Babycenter.com:

Your baby is now nearly 5.5 inches/ 13 centimeters long from crown to rump and weighs approximately 5 ounces/ 140 grams... With the help of a special stethoscope, you can now hear your baby's heartbeat.

I actually forgot to tell you that yes, we heard the baby's heartbeat. The Gynae put a strange-looking mic on my wife's tummy and suddenly we could hear...... nothing.
It's because he still needed to find where the heart was. So after he tried several times, we finally could hear it.

Remember the time when you tried to hear your heart beat for the first time and you were amazed that your heart could produce a hard bee-dub, bee-dub sound? Well, it was totally not like that.
What we heard instead was a fast swooshing sound. The baby's heart beats almost twice as fast as the mommy's, so the sound that we heard was not as we expected. But it was amazing anyway. It's great to know that the heart was working and it was amazing to feel and hear the life inside.