12 Weeks
12 July 2010
Dan and I went along to St Helier hospital for our first scan and were very excited! I had to drink a lot of water to get the bladder full (apparently this makes the picture clearer!) so I drank and drank and drank!
We paid £15 for 3 scan pics and after a short wait we were called in. We had a great doctor who was so friendly and helpful.
We then saw our little baby!! It was bouncing around like crazy, waving its little hand, crossing its legs and then sucking its thumb! So amazing to see!! It looked so big on the screen but it is only 6cms long, tiny! All was good and healthy and got told that it was developing well and due date is 23 January 2011.
Dan and I went along to St Helier hospital for our first scan and were very excited! I had to drink a lot of water to get the bladder full (apparently this makes the picture clearer!) so I drank and drank and drank!
We paid £15 for 3 scan pics and after a short wait we were called in. We had a great doctor who was so friendly and helpful.
We then saw our little baby!! It was bouncing around like crazy, waving its little hand, crossing its legs and then sucking its thumb! So amazing to see!! It looked so big on the screen but it is only 6cms long, tiny! All was good and healthy and got told that it was developing well and due date is 23 January 2011.
They do the Nuchal Test at this point (they also did a blood test last week). This is basically to see whether the baby is at risk of Down Syndrome. Along with my blood test result they measure the amount of liquid behind the babies neck. This then gives a risk factor. Anything that is 1:500 or less gets referred for further tests. We got a ''low risk' and was 1.5 mm in length so gave us a 1:1850 chance of the baby being at risk, so we were very happy!
All things look good. We got given loads of scan photos (so could have only paid for 1 pic, oh well) and we obviously got a memory that will last a lifetime! We have finally got it confirmed, we are going to become a Mummy and Daddy!!! :0)
All things look good. We got given loads of scan photos (so could have only paid for 1 pic, oh well) and we obviously got a memory that will last a lifetime! We have finally got it confirmed, we are going to become a Mummy and Daddy!!! :0)
We popped along to Dan's mum school to show off our baby. Frances, Fran and Laul were very excited about us popping along, I think it broke up their day a bit! So cool to show them the first photo of the new addition to the Hawkes family!
Here's a photo of my tiny bump at 12 weeks....
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