Lots of Easter Chocolate

Easter Monday 9th April
Loppy 7+0


My pregnancy so far has been pretty uneventful, mild queasiness has begun but no where near how bad it was with Sparty, I actually cannot remember when it began to get really bad, I know that I felt sick at 6 weeks but don’t know if I'm more used to it and better at dealing with it now than I was back then, or if I'm just less sick this time - who knows!  I’ve had no bleeding at all which is just lovely - although I'm still on toilet paper watch every single time - crazy woman!   Fingers crossed that the rest of the 33 weeks goes on as uneventful and normal!  Compared to last time, I've been wondering if there is anything actually there! Maybe my body just knows what to do this time round.


So I'm not sure why, I guess because I've not been having any obvious signs, but on a whim me and Tom decided to book a private early scan.  Tom returned from skiing on the Sunday and I thought that it might be a nice thing for us to do.  There was a BabyBond in Wimbledon offering the early scan for the Monday so we booked it.  Potentially this could have been a bloody disaster if it had been bad news, but then again, it would always be a disaster no matter what day we found out on.


For this scan, I had to have a full bladder, so I was told to drink a pint of water an hour before, it didn’t help that the sonnographer was about 10 minutes late - I was ready to burst!  
Our last set of scans were simply horrendous so it was with great trepidation that I lay there as the gel was squeezed onto my tummy.  We dealt with the ‘is this your first pregnancy?’ question with ease, we’ll have to get used to that one I think.  


I had forgotten how amazing scans can be.  Straight away the nice lady said that she could see something there and could see a flicker!  When she zoomed in - there was Loppy!  The little heart beating away at 140bpm.  She even turned the heartbeat on so we could hear it.  Hopefully the little heart we heard this time is perfect.  We will keep everything crossed for that.


Loppy was measuring exactly 7 weeks so is growing perfectly normal.  (NORMAL - such a nice word!!)  She said that he was in the right place and everything looked fine.  I couldn’t keep the grin from my face.  
We celebrated by returning to one of the first places me and Tom had a date;  Bayee Village in Wimbledon Village  - we had a gorgeous Chinese there - made even tastier knowing that Loppy was enjoying it too!  


Tom seems a lot more connected to Loppy - he’s not well at the moment so maybe he’s a bit more emotional.  There is a lot riding on Loppy - if this is our take home rainbow baby then its going to get double the love from us and will be such a special child.  


It feels like this is one hurdle over with and so we are celebrating each milestone. We have our NHS scan in 10 days.


Love Helen and Loppy


* Sparty - my gorgous baby boy who I will love and miss forever*