12 Week Scan

Baby Bob is alive and most certainly kicking! :)

Infact he/she kicked and stretched all the way through, so much so that the woman doing the scan commented on what an active baby it was and she kept poking it in order to make it move when it settled. Lol

He/she also appears to have very long legs like its Daddy which is a good thing because I’d rather it be that way then be a short arse like me.

I can’t believe how clear the baby looked either; like a proper little person. It’s hard to get my head around the fact that it’s really inside my belly and not just on a TV screen. The rush of feeling I had when seeing it was something I’ve never experienced before and I now know that I will do anything possible to make sure this baby is safe and well.

This whole growing a baby thing is so so strange yet so so lovely to be able to do all at the same time.

Off To See The Specialist

Yey finally some progress has been made :)

I had a doctors appointment last night which to be honest was a waste of time, as he asked me if I’d had any more bleeding of which I said, “no, not in the past two weeks”. With that he told me to carry on as I was and that was it

I mentioned the fact that despite telling him at five weeks that I was pregnant, I still hadn’t heard anything from/about the midwife so he told me to speak to the receptionist on my way out, who went on to explain that the fax request hadnt been sent over yet, so they have booked me in provisionally for Friday 17th April and the midwife will call this Thursday to confirm if that date is ok.

I will be twelve weeks on the 17th, so god only knows when the twelve week scan will be booked in for.

I’ve also just got off the phone from the EPU at the hospital to discuss last weeks scan and the need to see a specialist.

She advised me that she has spoken to the specialist and I am to come in to see him next Tuesday so he can have a proper look up there to see what’s going on. She said that the scan shows I defiantly don’t have two uteri but that I may still have two cervixes (?!)

The swab tests have come back clear which is good and *TMI Alert!* she has put the excessive discharge down to my hormones working overtime.

Only another thirty one weeks of this to go :)

2 Cervix and A Blood Clot ...

... trust me to be different but to be honest, am I really that surprised?

Today we had the third scan at the hospital; it was to check up on Bob’s progress due to the recurring blood loss over the past few weeks.

I’m happy to report that the baby is fine, its heart was beating away like a trooper and it’s been confirmed as eight weeks and four days 'old'; putting me back two days from my original EDD. It’s also a cute 18.7mm from head to bum hehe

However; it appears the cause for all of this bleeding is a blood clot which is sitting just below one of my cervix. Yes that’s right; one of my cervix.

The scan showed that there is a possibility that I have two (!?)

The woman scanning me called for a specialist to come down to give his opinion but he wasn’t available so I was asked to go wait in the waiting room so that I could be seen by a nurse.

I was eventually called into the nurse’s office where I was given an internal exam using the same machine which they use for a smear test and a swab was taken as I *TMI Alert!* have been experiencing a vast amount of discharge of late. I was then given an internal from the nurse herself who said that what she could feel, did feel thicker then normal.

For a second time the contraption was put inside of me so that the nurse could get a good look up there but typically she couldn’t see much.

I’ve been told that I will have to come back one day this week to see the specialist so he can confirm if I have two cervix or not and we were also advised that the clot will probably go one of two ways;

It will either carry on 'trickling' out as it has done for the past few weeks, or it will burst and come out in one go. Either way the nurse has assured us not to worry if either happens as the baby is healthy and it will solely be the clot and not the baby.

If I do however have two cervixes then it means that I will have to have a c-section to deliver the baby and they have hinted that this could be the very reason why it has taken us so bloody long to fall pregnant to start with. I guess that’s the one good thing to come out of it.

So there we go. Despite wanting a nice, normal, boring pregnancy, I get one like this but hey, the baby is ok and as long as it stays ok, I really couldn’t care less about everything else.

Baby Has a Heartbeat

Yey!

I finally feel like I can relax a little and start to enjoy this pregnancy.

We had a second scan this morning to 'verify' the pregnancy.

The little mite has a strong heart beat and has gone from a black blob to a white blob.

It was strange seeing it on the screen but also a huge relief as it’s now made it all the more real.

I really can not explain how happy I am to finally have it confirmed that I have a little life growing inside of me.