I found it!

Oh my goodness, what a glorious day! I just finished wiping the tears from my eyes, because..

..I have found my baby's heartbeat!!!! Elfie is aliiiive!!!!

So here's the backstory on the fetal doppler:
On Sunday, I was being lazy and surfing youtube for pregnancy-related videos. I came across one that showed a couple at home listening to their little one's hb and she was only 11.5 weeks. M heard the video and asked what I was doing. I told him how cool it would be to listen any time we want, but that dopplers were really expensive and not worth the cost at this point. What's funny about my comment is that I had just assumed they were too costly, but had never really done any research. Don't get me wrong, if you WANTED TO, you could easily spend a couple hundred bucks on a fancy, high-tech device. But we went the way of an am.azon search and found one for THIRTY THREE DOLLARS!! My first reaction was that it was cheap and wouldn't work...but it got 4.5 stars and a lot of great reviews, so we decided $33 was worth it. It doesn't have speakers, so you have to listen through headphones, OR you can hook it up to your computer and create an audio file to send to relatives.

So I wasn't really sure what to expect when the ultrasound gel arrived today. I bared my belly, squeezed on the gel, and waited. And searched. And waited. And got frustrated. And got panicky. And finally found it. Oh my, what a sound. I had heard it before, but not in the convenience of my house with the questioning looks from my darling dog! What a huge relief!

I think I might already be addicted!