So we had our first ultrasound yesterday. I have to confess that I was a mess beforehand - headache, shaking, couldn't swallow... Shouldn't it be a good thing having that first scan?
When the guy came out to get us and he was the same one that did the scan with George my legs almost went out from underneath me. I wanted to ask for someone else, but frankly I think I might be running out of sonographers.
I settled myself up on the bed,l and he said something about my bladder not being full. I thought to myself, yeah, this guy has never been pregnant. It was good to be a bit crabby with him, it took my mind of things for a little bit.
He finally got to it, and was crapping on about bladders and pelvises and uterus's - couldn't he tell that there was only one thing we wanted to see? Next thing I knew though I was hearing the baby's heart beat and I couldn't breath. I actually let out a sob.
We have a very viable pregnancy. Coco's heart rate is 110bpm, which I've googled (of course) and that's really good. There was no mention of any sunchronic hemorrhages, no cysts, just a perfect looking little embryo.
Gestational age was a big worry factor for me too. The first sign we had with George was that his GA was a week and a half behind what it should have been. This time? GA is 5 weeks 6 days, so only 2 days off, which is pretty much bang on really.
So all of this positive news. Doesn't mean I'm feeling good though. I'm feeling better but not good. I can't relax just yet. It's sometime over the next two weeks that things will go wrong if they're going to, so I still need to keep it together for a little bit.
Today we're off to Dr Naiker again.He'll go through the scan, and I guess tell me where we go from here. I want to do a blood test at 8 weeks just to check my hormone levels, and then have a scan at 13 weeks.
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