Well I had my first Gyno/Dr appointment last Friday.
He’s such a nice DR. Both Matt and I like him a lot. He also gave me Maxolon for the horrible sickness I have been having, so I love him for that.
He ordered heaps of things for me though and I walked out with heaps of papers. But that’s all good. So at least when I come back for the birth of the baby (from W.A to S.A) I can take all the papers into the midwives down there. He wanted me to have an urgent Scan though to see when the baby will be due and to find out the age. Due to other tests that need to be done.
Everyone on my side of the family knows about the baby. But it’s up for Matt to tell his. When he does though I don’t know. I’m hoping this week sometime. I’m already almost ten weeks. But it’s not my position to be telling them. I told all my family. We laughed we cried… wish I could say hugged… but I’ll have to wait for the hug. My dad is ecstatic, he is over the moon and doing summersaults and already planning on coming down for to Adelaide after or when the baby is due and my sister as well… it’s going to be such a great time. Not only to have my family around me but to have my mum dad maybe in the one room… something I have never seen. My grandmother is even staying longer in Adelaide now. But also my cousin is getting married late October, so two big things happening with the both of us. It will be great to have my Nan around though, we are really close, and to share this with her is something really good.
Getting back to it. Yesterday (28th of May 2008) I had the ultrasound to see how old the baby is. Both Matt and i went on. It was such good timing as Matt had night shift the night before which meant he wasn’t at work that day. We both went in there and I was so scared I didn’t have enough water in me even though I knew I had over a litre.
Matt had a smile on his face the whole time… I was just nervous. All sorts of things going through my mind like… what if the baby didn’t have a heartbeat… what if there was just a sack and no baby. But she got the lube out and put the ultrasound thing on… didn’t have to hold it on there too long, before long we seen the sack and an image of a gorgeous baby. A baby which is growing inside of ME!
She then looked around a little bit longer and took some photos after the baby stopped pretending the sack was a seesaw… it was moving a bit. Then they showed us the heartbeat, then all of a sudden she put the volume of it up… and we could hear it. I swear it was the best sound EVER, hearing our baby’s heartbeat for the first time; I was so euphoric, and still.
And then she said how far along we are, and I’m now 9 weeks and 6 days. Which means the baby is due on the…
Dun dun dun
26th of December 2008
Which is also Matt’s Birthday. Ha ha ha ha. Great timing ha ha ha lol.
Anyways she gave me a picture. Matt was over the moon and holding it all the time. We went around to some friend’s house and he had to hold it and he had to show her lol. We then took it home and uploaded it on the net.
One of my best friends, Nessa. She is an Intern. So very close to being a full pledged Doctor. I call her Dr Nessa My Online Dr.
She decided to point out what everything on the photo was so I had a much better idea of where the baby was. I already knew most of it. But she drew on it and it looks so much better.
So I will end this with some pictures.
It was really hard to get the right size of this picture. but you get the main idea.
and the one nessa did for us.
