Unfortunately, the traffic was horrible and I was 5 minutes late to my appt, so they decided, for whatever reason, to bring me into the u/s room a few minutes early and take my blood after the scan. That wouldn't have been a problem, but my mom was coming at 4 and she wasn't there yet! So I was praying the scan would take a few extra minutes, since we were getting started without her, and that she would arrive momentarily! She did and had plenty of time to see her grandbaby, as said baby was being difficult and wouldn't turn the right way for the Sonographer, Laura, to get the correct angle to measure the fluid at the back of the neck. All in all, it took Laura about 15 minutes of pushing and jabbing to get BF to move the right ways! When I was done, my skin was all red and my body was a bit sore from all the pushing. But it quickly went away and I would gladly do it again to see Baby for another 15 minutes!
I was surprised the first time Laura tried to get the baby to move - she just took her fingers and poked my uterus repeatedly - pretty hard! I started laughing because I was so caught off guard. Shaken Baby Syndrome! lol She had to do that multiple times too! It was cool to see the cause and effect though.
Now I know what pushing on my uterus does to BF and how s/he reacts. What a cutie!
So as far as results/updates go...
- Baby was measuring right on track, at just past 12 weeks. I didn't get to see the measurement in cm. :( I'm thinking of calling to see if they have that recorded since she went so fast!
- The heart rate when we first started was 178! I wonder if the fact that I was worried about my mom making it on time had my heart and baby's heart racing?? After the 15 minutes of laying fairly still, other than all the jabbing, we got to listen to the heart rate again. This time it was only 156! Laura told me that the heartbeat being able to predict the gender is completely bogus! ha! Like I would actually believe in a silly theory like that in the first place.... lol
- The NT fluid needs to measure less than 3mm in order for the baby to be considered unlikely to have Down's. The thicker the neck, the more chance of having the disease. Laura took many measurements and the average was just 1.08mm! Seems BF is pretty assuredly not going to have DS. The blood work will take another week or two to come back and further verify the prognosis.
- Baby likes to kick its feet straight up in the air, and I'm amazed that s/he's only 2 inches long plus legs! S/he looks so big on the screen!
- Baby also likes to keep his/her right hand over or in front of the face. Plenty of times it looked like s/he was waving. Other times it looked like "woe is me!" hand to the forehead. And sometimes it seemed the hand was going to the mouth! Adorable! :)
- Caleb was pretty disappointed that Laura wouldn't even LOOK between the legs! lol He (and I) was hoping we could possibly get a little hint of the gender today, as we've heard of other people getting an idea this early. Seems we have to wait another 6 weeks!
These aren't the best and clearest. It seems to me that they are just the still frames from when she was at a good angle to measure the NT fluid. So she wasn't trying to get the baby's best profile shot! What was she thinking?! :)
Here are all 4 though...
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| Waving "Hello" to everyone! |
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| "This is my nose!" |
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| "These are my cute tiny lips!" |
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| I didn't realize I had an available pipe in my uterus! lol Bad habit to start so early! Also check out the legs sticking up at the left! :) |
I have a video, but it's 12 minutes long and I guess I need to find some program that can cut it down for me so that I can post a clip... Any ideas? I have it posted privately to youtube for anyone who wants to see/scroll through the 12 minute version! Just email me or post in the comments here and I'll send you the link!
It's AMAZING all the changes in just 2.5 weeks! I was THRILLED to see my baby today and am so happy that s/he looks whole and healthy! Thank you for your continued prayers for the health of our sweet baby!
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