Week 11 update and, the mechanization of parenthood?

I just got back from my OB appointment. Going to it, I was prepared to come back and complain- I'll get to that in a second.

However, I heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time today- what a beautiful sound. Since it's still pretty early, it took her a little bit, but, sure enough, Dr. Webster found it- nothing puts a smile on your face like the sound of your child. I wept the first couple times I heard Katie's heartbeat because I was such a basketcase with that pregnancy. So far, Dr. Webster says, it's a perfect pregnancy. I'm just happy to know this is ONE area my body doesn't flake out in.

AND THEN I found out I don't have to pay the co-payment every office visit to the OB. In Iowa- and this was the basis of my complaint- we didn't pay for any office visits, regardless if it was a specialist or not, because the insurance was that fabulous. The thought of paying $40 a month for every OB and every endocrinologist visit, both of whom I will be seeing monthly, annoyed the hell out of me. Evidently, this won't be happening at the OB- what a relief!

On an entirely different note: I saw something on TV this morning that has me scratching my head. On one of TLC's baby shows, the parents had some doodad that you held up to a crying baby and it then diagnosed what kind of cry the baby was crying...Seriously? It really becomes obvious what your kid needs after awhile when they cry. That's been our experience, anyways, and if the baby cries from hunger, then the baby's already too hungry anyways. But a machine to tell you what cry it is? Whatever.

Now, if they had this machine for toddlers, that'd be a different story...