Hey ladies! Oh my goodness what an afternoon. Good news, scan looked great but it took some work.
First we walk to the hospital, me with full bladder, in the snow and ice and still snowing. We get seen pretty quick which is great but when she looks the baby is sitting up, which she tells us is exactly the wrong position to get the measurements she needs. So I lay on one side, and then the other, I cough. She makes me walk laps around the hospital finally when that doesn't work to move baby she has me pee (totally happy about that by this point) She tries 2 different wands neither help really. Baby is getting mad, putting hands in front of face and batting at the place where she is poking! At one point, it looks like baby's running and I can't hold it any longer, and burst into laughter at which point my belly is jumping all over. And then I couldn't pull it together for 5 minutes. Sonographer was so sweet and very patient but I felt bad!
She got another doctor to come and try, but he couldn't get it either so after we had been watching our baby for an HOUR! they told us to come back in an hour - me with a full bladder again!
Now, I never mind watching our little one and had had a blissful time watching him/her wiggle around but still...
We don't want to walk home and back again because its still snowing so we hunker down at the coffee kiosk, hubby who didn't eat before gets a sandwich so he doesn't pass out, and I had hot chocolate and tried to fill my bladder with water too.
By the time we walk around a little more and go back, we get seen about 15 minutes later than expected and I can literally not stand upright as we walk to the room my bladder is close to bursting and I am almost crying when she starts to scan, a bit because it hurt and a bit because I was so afraid I was going to pee right there on the table!! Baby had moved position so she let me pee and then was able to get the measurements she needed. Everything was in the normal range, I can't remember what the numbers were.
Baby was measuring 12w 2 days which is great. No mention was made about gender, I am not to wait a bit longer to find out.
Also as we were leaving she handed us a little plush lamb with a vest on that says, "I had my ultra sound at Northwest hospital" I guess that's baby's first toy!
I have to wait a week or so for my blood test results but hopefully that come back ok.
I will try and post pics later. She took them during the mammoth scanning session so they are a weird position, and not the cute profile ones. You can see the profile and its adorable (of course) but its not as good as what we saw at the second scan.
I guess the baby is just showing us who's boss! So cute, and feisty! I love this kid already!!
Anyway, now we are home and warming up in front of the fire with a cup of tea. Only a few more days until we open up and share the news. Not sure if I can wait for the blood work to come back?!
Welcome Pretty!!
And looking forward to sunny's update soon
x x x
