Please see new pictures on the "photos" section, taken last week at the Nuchan Scan!!!!  PS for all you people who know what you are looking at, the reason it looks like its legs are out of the womb is that I had alot of gas apparently, thats the grey fuzz!

We got to spend a whole hour with our baby, looking at its brain, hands, all its bones, and its nose!!  We saw it play at floating in the amniotic fluid (and saw the amniotic fluid in its tummy too!), and it was lively as usual, and and one point was holding the cord - how cute!

You will see from the piccies the legs are really long - and it measured 63.4mm head to rump already so has grown 50% in two weeks, and will be even bigger as I am a week further on now!

The good news is that the consultant said it was the smallest nuchal fold she had seen in all the years she had been working, and our "risk" is 1:2054 - so we are very pleased and have decided that although we will not be having the triple test, we will have the blood test for spina bifida at the next widwifes appointment in two weeks time.

More news is that at the weekend when i rolled over on my tummy in bed I felt a movement, two mornings running! Definately did not feel like gas, and because I am skinny normally it could be that I can feel the baby already - cant wait till it is moving more so I can feel it properly. (Although considering how energetic it is at the scans I will probably be asking it to stay still in the later stages so i can get some sleep!!)

Well, had better get on, am feeling much less tired this week although have a terrible cold!

Tracey

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For all of you who wondered where I'd gone, I'm still here, but to be honest there's not that much to report!!

Think this pregnancy is going to go rrrrreeeeeaaaalllllyyyyy sssssslllllllloooooowwwwllyyy.

I cant believe I am only now 12 weeks and 2 days, how I will get to 40 weeks, I dont know - it seems to be dragging so much now - Craig just wants baby to get here!

I still have my ickle bump, which is there more of now in the mornings, instead of being flat in the morning and growing throughout the day like it used to, but I just want it bigger!! I really want people to see that Im pregnant! (and I havnt just overindulged!)

I bumped into another friend yesterday and told her, and told my friend Amelia on Wednesday too, so theres only a couple of aunts to tell at weekend and another couple to tell but they are coming over in a week or so's time, we really wanted to tell them in person instead of via text, so i will be 13+3 by the time we see them!

I am alot more tired this week, the past couple of weeks I had seemed to get my energy back but feel so tired again - have been going to bed at 8 some of this week and am able to sleep a bit better, I am still waking up but manage to get back to sleep relatively quickly (after the usual toilet trip!)

Anyway, we are having the nuchal scan next friday so hope to get another piccy then which I will post on for you all to see!

Tracey

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Had dating scan yesterday, all went very well.  Craig was such a sweetie! He kissed me and kept saying what a clever girl I was. He was absolutely thrilled and soooh excited!!  To be honest I was wondering how I would feel as I had seen baby on the emergency scan a week before, I didnt know whether it would take the edge off this one, but it was so amazing - it was doing aerobics - I cant believe how much it was moving - Craig says it's going to be an athelete - it kept doing star jumps!!  Its heart was flickering away too!

Its funny how, because I now have something tangible to look at, (and believe me I can't stop looking at the piccy!), I do feel so differently about the little one, I am completely falling in love with it, and my fears about not bonding with my baby are fading away. I feel so much different about it now.  I guess every woman worries whether they will good at being a mummy and how they will feel when baby arrives.  Despite the fact the baby is so very much wanted, my nerves kicked in and I worried I wouldnt bond with it, now though I feel much more relaxed and cant wait till it arrives, I'm sure those feelings will increase even more in the months to come!

More news is that although the date of my last period is exact, my due date is now 25th April instead of the 30th April - I am 5 days further gone than I thought.  The nurse says I ovulated a bit earlier than the way the "standard" due date calculator does it.  So instead of being just over 10 weeks I am 11 weeks and 1 day today!  (This also confirms why my symptoms started so very early.)

Anyway - please see the piccy on my photo page - for those of you who want to know technical details - baby is 4.4cm long, and in the photo it is facing you with two dots as its arms and its knees are hugging up on it's chest. The heart is the blob right in the middle and the yolk sac is laying below and across to the right from its feet!  This sac will be gone in a couple of days apparently and then it will be feeding off me! (And I will be it's waste disposal system - yuk!)

Anyway bye for now, hope you love our little one as much as we do!

Tracey

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I havnt written for a few days as got rushed into Hospital last thursday morning, had been up since 3am in pain, like sharp pains on one side, with symptoms of bad period pain.  I phoned the midwife who got me to go to hospital straightaway.  Mum was with me as poor Craig was in Warwickshire - a four hour drive, so he set off as soon as he knew I was going in, but did not get back till I was out of hospital. 

The nurses and doctor there were fantastic, I was put in my own room a few minutes after we got there, then had a normal scan at which point they found the baby and confirmed it was in the right place but they couldnt see the heartbeat, so I had to have an internal exam, and vaginal scan - where I saw the baby sooooh clearly and its hearbeat flashing away on the screen!! I could not believe it - it kept bobbing it's head and moved its arm - it really was amazing - I cant believe with all that action that I cant actually feel it yet!

The doctor was very happy with everything and has put the pains down to either my rapid bump growth, a water infection coming or going, or (as Craig and my mum think) carrying too much shopping the previous day! I was so careful, but it seems I have to be even more careful than I thought.

I was so sorry that Craig arrived too late to see everything but am sure my mum, grandma to be, was happy she got in first!  Craig is back Wednesday though for our dating scan so I get to see little one twice in one week!

We have now started telling everyone as Im ten weeks now, and now I've seen baby and the hospital have confirmed everything is ok, I feel ok about telling everyone - plus I am expanding further each day, and cant really hide it anymore!

I will write again Thursday after our first (non emergency!) scan and hopefully post the scan picture for you all to see!

Tracey

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