We had our 12 week scan recently. The main purpose was to check for the likelihood of Downs Syndrome. Although I followed the drinking water and juice instructions the baby was being uncooperative and resolutely remained asleep and standing on it’s head (as long as its in that position when it needs to come out) while the sonographer tried to do the ultrasound. I emptied my bladder, walked up and down, rolled around, but still nope, the peanut wouldn’t move so she couldn’t get a good measurement of it’s neck which is the whole point of the exercise. She did get plenty of photos of its bits and I saw its heart and it was waving its tiny arms and legs around. So we tried an internal scan - which wasn’t as horrid as I thought it might be. She got a shot but not a good one, so having used up our 45 minutes we went out to walk around and have some orange juice while the next appointment went in. That worked, when we went back in the baby was horizontal and the sonographer got a shot of its neck. 

Results were good, I’m in a low risk category. It also turns out from one of the blood tests I had that I’m immune to chickenpox, yay. This scan also showed the baby being older than the last scan.

We saw our obstetrician and midwife again last week to get the results. All fine and the baby’s been dated a day older, so I was thirteen weeks last tuesday. I’m booked in for my 20 weeks scan too.

 Morning sickness is still bothering me, but I am feeling a lot better in myself - more energy and motivation (thank goodness) - I’m even keen about work. It’s such a change from the last three months where I felt like death warmed up every morning and it was all I could do to show up at work and function at the minimum level - forget about housework!

TheHusband has been really rather excellent however and has done above and beyond his fair share of housework and has even been sensitive about my lack of libido during the week!