The doctor moved the wand around on Melissa’s belly and warned us “Now usually we find the mom’s first…” But her eyes lit slightly as a persistent beat drummed through the device’s speakers. “… or sometimes not! That’s the baby’s!”

A grin split from ear-to-ear on our faces as Melissa and I glanced at each other briefly, and the realization hit home: Somebody’s in there.

I tried to record the experience of hearing our baby’s heartbeat the first time, but in my happiness managed to confuse the green “pause” icon with the red “record” icon and not commit a thing to tape. Why the good folks at Sony would think green means stop and red means go, I have no idea. I’ll get it next time, however.

The doctor also said that next time she’d let me try to find the heartbeat, and issued this like a challenge. Tish! Has my video game expertise not proceeded me, Doctor?

-Daran