First Trimester

Ticked off and I'm pleased to report that all is well with the baby!

It wasn't all smooth sailing (ha, did you expect any different?) but nothing more stressful than baby not wanting to move into the position necessary to get the nuchal measurement from the back of its neck. If you could of seen what I went through physically to get baby to move, it was just comical and involved half emptying my bursting bladder, tilting of the bed to a scary head-down angle, K having to hold my thigh to stop me rolling off the bed as I rolled from one side to the other, deep coughing (not good with an already sore throat!) and oh yes, a walk around the block to encourage the stubborn one to move! It was all good though and finally, baby decided to flip and the tech snapped the measurement she needed at last.

K apparently said to B that it was like the Karma Sutra - yes it was, but less pleasurable! Honestly, there was no dignity left after having it all hanging out and being poked and prodded every which way, oh well, welcome the life of a surrogate!

K went solo for this appointment as B was tied up with something important at work which turned out to be a bit more of a shame than it already was because of the fact that we had such a long scan - it would of been lovely if he could of shared today but there will be many more opportunities and he was duly updated in detail during and after.

We saw that the baby is measuring right on track, 12 weeks exactly and all appears fine. We only had the scan and not the combined test, where they test the blood too to give you a risk for 3 of the most common abnormalities and this was due to the twin which would skew the results. The result of the scan measurement came back as low risk, we came away breathing a sigh of relief afterwards which felt fantastic, given how tense we all were.

So sweet to see such intricate things as baby's spine - doesn't matter I've seen it all before, it never fails to amaze me!

That's us done now with appointments for 4 weeks, until our next midwife appointment which I know seems a long way away given how many we've had to keep us busy during the first trimester but actually it'll be nice to just coast along for a few weeks and take a breather.