Dan here.  Did you know my wife and I are pregnant?  Pretty cool.   We call it the bump, because we don’t know the gender.

As we get closer to the due date (March 8), we begin going to the doctor once a week, and today was our first in our series of once-a-week appointments from here on out.  At every appointment, the doctor uses a Doppler (a microphone that you put on the bump and it plays the sound of the heartbeat audibly as well as shows us the heart rate).  Today, the doctor asked if i would like to operate the Doppler, which i happily did!

As you may or may not know, the baby’s heartbeat is super-fast at the beginning of pregnancy (over 200 BPM - normal adult resting heart rate is something like 65 BPM, I think) and slows as the pregnancy goes on.

You will all be pleased to know that our bump’s BPM was 146 today, meaning that my son or daughter is poised to take my spot in Good Night, States, particularly with respect to playing “Killer of The One” or “The Only Thing” (both clock in at 144 BPM).