26 Weeks 5 Days: Fantastic News

We saw the normal obstetrics clinic at the hospital today to get the scan report from last week, and it couldn't have gone better! Well, I guess it could have, they could have said they'd imagined the cleft, but realistically what we heard was the next best thing.

Basically bub is growing fantastically, there is the perfect amount of amniotic fluid and everything else that they check for is spot on too. So the risks of chromosomal defects at this point are next to none. We will have a beautiful little girl with a cleft, and that will be fixed soon enough.

We also got a call from the nursing unit manager at the Royal Hobart Hospital NICU to organise for us to take a look around when we go down. She confirmed that bub will actually be kept in the NICU after surgery, which is going to be really scary, not because of bub but because of all the other really sick babies who I'll see and will make me sad!

My BP was down again today when they checked so I've been resting today in the hope that it was just from a rough night with Sophie last night. Hopefully that's all anyway, because I'm finally doing my glucose test in the morning and I'm guessing that its going to be hard on my BP with the fasting and the instant hit of glucose.

My bump is starting to get really huge now, which I realised on the weekend when I did a side by side comparison photo:

So no surprises really today when they measured my fundal height and its already at 30 weeks! I can only imagine how gigantic I'll be when I'm fully cooked!