Life After Two Blue Lines: March 2011

Around the 20 week mark is the most important ultrasound scan, called the morphology scan. It basically checks that baby is growing properly and has all the bits and pieces and fingers and toes it should. AND.... if you want... you can find out the gender!

I have been DYING to know whether I have a little boy or girl ever since I found out I was pregnant! Not to mention I just wanted to know bub was ok, as I still wasn't feeling much in the way of movements yet.

I had heard a few horror stories in the preceding weeks, so the night before the scan I barely slept a wink! Luckily the scan was in the morning, but the scan place was running 40 minutes late - torture!!

Finally, though, my name was called and it was so worth the wait!! The scan was amazing, all little arms and legs and fingers and toes accounted for and wriggling around! All the structures of the brain were measured and we could see inside the little beating heart - and we even saw little bub taking little gulps of the amniotic fluid, which I thought was amazing!

My perfect little bub at 19 weeks 1 day

AND... the big question... little bub gave us a nice clear look between the legs and....

A perfect little girl :-) I thought I wanted a boy, but ever since finding out she is a girl, I have been totally in love with her. I love that I have a pronoun for her now, it all feels so much more real!

She is measuring right on date too - she has been such a textbook baby so far... let's hope that bodes well for the birth.... and after!

Hopefully not like this - Crazy Baby!!

Daddy C and I even came across a girl's name the night before that we both really liked and it is definitely in the forefront in the name stakes now. I thought we were going to have a lot of trouble picking a girls name as we hadn't been able to really agree on anything before that - but it turned out easier than I expected! I think we'll probably wait until she is born before introducing our little girl to the world - just in case she comes out and doesn't suit our name at all!

The thing I find funny is - I hadn't really been feeling movements before the scan, just the odd niggle about once a week. Even during the scan she was going to town with the wriggling and I couldn't feel a thing. But ever since the scan I have been feeling movement everyday, multiple times a day. She even seems to have a little cycle, movements are mostly in the morning before morning tea, sometimes in the afternoon, and then in the evening again. They are mostly little niggles rather than big kicks (I guess her feet are still pretty little and her cartilage is only just turning to bone now) but it is always exciting, I absolutely love it.