13 weeks 5 days and counting

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! 

Rewind

Tonight is the first time I’ve felt good in ooh about 2 weeks. Not sick, actually energetic, positive. I’ve had morning sickness pretty much continuously. Not vomiting, just a low level of continuous nausea that has just zapped me. It’s got so that I can’t look at a baby book without feeling sick. I think I must finally be getting a handle on what to eat and when to counteract it.  Anyway, I don’t want to speak too soon because I know it could be a gazillion times worse, and at least I can function. Also, it turns out I’m only 7 turning 8 weeks along so I could have another month of this at least.

I went to my first obstetrician appointment on Friday. The doc was nice and so was the midwife. The appointment took a while and the doc did a scan to determine age. He had a bit of trouble measuring the peanut but he got it at 7 weeks 2 days. This means the peanut is 5.2 weeks old and that I probably ovulated when I thought I did – 3 weeks after my period finished. Stupid irregular cycle. It also means the peanut is due Nov 12, not Oct 29.  Anyway we saw the peanut and it’s little heart beat and got a print out of the piccy. I’m all booked in for the 12 week scan and associated blood tests and have appointments all the way through set up with the obstetrician.

Pregnancy so far – first few weeks, good, aside from sore boobs, wondering if I was pregnant etc. Then I got really hungry one day and then morning sickness hit. Morning sickness has been a bitch and I got rather depressed about it the Thursday night before Easter because nothing was fun anymore just nauseating and there was soo much to do and I didn’t feel like doing any of it.  But some time off over easter spent with the family cheered me up even though this week has been worse MS wise. I have to have milk in the morning, I’ve discovered and eat early. A proper lunch seems to help too.

Apart from that, my breasts are still tender and I get tired easily. Oh and I get emotional over weird things. Like bumper stickers.

ETA: just read over my old posts – my ovulation was even later than I thought it was – must have been when I was having the cramps in the morning. Or possibly I had conceived then? Interesting to see what age they give the peanut at the next scan.