Long story...
We had our gender scan today, it was absolutely fantastic even though the little one didnt really play along well.
Arrived just before 12:00, nicely on time even though we left late. Got there in one go, no wrong turns and the traffic was nice on the way over and back .Very rare for us, as DH usually has bad luck. Got there and was told to fill in a form and sign it, pretty much just the usual stuff saying we are aware its not a medical scan, if anything has been overlooked at the 16 week scan that will probably not pick it up either, and the gender scan is only 97% accurate. Nothing we werent expecting, and we put our signature to it.
Got a little delayed as the woman in front of me took a little longer, her baby kept showing bum up and they couldnt sex accurately. She called in someone else to help her, and I guess they figured it out as the woman, her OH and her mum all seemed very happy when they came out and looked through the pictures. We got called in around 12:20 and asked if we wanted to know the gender of our little one, I said yes and Peter (DH) jokingly mentioned how he didnt really mind but after months of nagging agreed to a yes. Mean him, lol! He did always say he didnt want to know, and I did. During our trying to conceive I agreed that we wouldnt find out if he didnt want to, but as soon as I fell pregnant he changed his mind and wouldnt mind find out. Anyways!
She started her scan, and our little one didnt want to open the legs and show. After a lot of poking, manoeuvring the little one and kindly asking to be nice we got a pretty view that showed 3 lines! Yup, we're on team
PINK!! =D
Shes a cuddly and shy little one though, it took about 10 minutes to get her to open up her legs and we hadnt even started the rest of the scan yet to show us our daughter in 3D/4D. The scan was only supposed to be 10 minutes, but they didnt at any point rush it at all. The staff was incredibly friendly and careful, didnt hurt me at all and took all the time in the world to show us exactly what we wanted. But, as I mentioned, shes a cuddly one. With that I mean that she was cuddled up to the placenta completely and refused to move so we could focus on her, constantly had the placenta in the way. After another 10 minutes or so the lady got her to turn, but as soon as she did and she had her face away from the placenta she moved her arm onto her face! Shes a camera shy little girl like me! =D
Peter kept saying how much shes like me already, cuddly and shy
plus, as it turned out, shes already good at getting freebies (always a good quality)! Because she didnt want to play nice the sonographer apologised for not being able to get any good photos and suggested we come back in a couple of weeks to try again from scratch. She gave us 4 print outs anyway even though they werent too good, and gave us the dvd of footage. So weve got another scan on the 14th of October now
we get to see our little girl again, and get more pictures! Hooray! =D
I must admit that weve already agreed that well either be buying a cd with photos or one of their frames, just because we feel bad taking an extra scan completely for free. Obviously Im thrilled with what we got, and can not wait to go back again.
Now, meet our daughter...
Bad photos taken as screen shots from the dvd we received, which didnt have any sharp footage on it either due to a camera shy little girl.
Cuddling the placenta:
https://www.elviramckane.com/pregnancy/wp-content/gallery/scan-pictures/hugging-the-placenta.jpg
Just before hiding:
https://www.elviramckane.com/pregnancy/wp-content/gallery/scan-pictures/i-have-hands.jpg
Gone again:
https://www.elviramckane.com/pregnancy/wp-content/gallery/scan-pictures/hiding-behind-her-arms.jpg
Really can not recommend Take a Peek, St. Helens enough if anyone is near them and considering a private scan. The ladies there are lovely and they really do take their time to try and get the best results possible.
Also, can my stork be changed to team Pink? =D
lol
