21+2
We're in new territory now guys after a wonderful (and slightly emotional in good and bad ways) 21 week scan last Friday.
We saw a beautiful baby Loppy with perfect heart on the screen and the scanner lady checked most bits with ease. Loppy was in the same position as before, head to the right of my tummy, with legs out breech across my tummy. This is clearly the position that he likes to be in. Knees and legs came up to his tummy frequently, and at one stage his feet were even resting on the ceiling as it were (whoa, what a feeling, we're dancing on the ceiling)
Highlights for us including seeing him yawn a little 'O' shaped yawn on his little face. Tom saw him take a drink, swallow and then watch the black liquid travel down to his tummy; she zoomed in really close to the lips and face to check for cleft palate and that was amazing to see!
She check pretty much everything pretty easily, five fingers, toes, perfect stomach, kidneys, heart, brain, size, length etc.. Then she attempted to check the spine.
This was where we ran into difficulties as Loppy's chilled out position just wasn't conducive to her doing this, so she asked us to take a walk around, have a drink and something to eat and come back in 15 mins. I hated doing this, its what we had to do last time and its not nice. I pretty much knew that Loppy wouldn't move as i've never seen him in a different position to this one.
So I was right and when we came back, no luck. She then told us that we'd have to come back tomorrow and this is when I got upset. I didn't want to wait any longer to get the all clear. I needed to know sooner than that and I couldn't stop myself from pretty much bursting into tears - oh dear :-(
It wasn't a tactic i'd adopted to force anything, but it worked and she asked us to come back in an agonisingly long two hours. When we returned, he'd still not moved so we did some jiggery pokery and I tossed and turned and ended up with my feet up in the air and head down - oh the dignity! Gravity worked though and Loppy slid down far enough for her to get the three measurements she needed to check for Spinabifida.
So that was it: We were done! It wasn't quite the walking on air feeling that i'd hoped for as I left the hospital, more of a relief because of the emotion and fear that i'd felt when I thought we might not get all the answers that day. But as the weekend progressed its just the nicest feeling to know that our take home baby is a huge step closer to us.
So this is new stuff for me now. We said goodbye to Sparty at 22+5 so I've got a few days to go until then, but as i've mentioned before, our scan with Sparty changed everything, my baby was gone from then all really - so for me, this is all new.
Helen
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P.S As we approach our final Sparty hurdle of 22+5 i've been thinking about him more and more, and as this new pregnancy progresses I feel sad that I couldn't have experienced it with Sparty too. Feeling Loppy kick me and grow inside me makes me very sad that Sparty never got that chance to go any further. I'm back to the reality again that I couldn't have ever had them both and I just have to thank my lucky stars that Loppy came along and we saved Sparty from any pain, hardship, fear or worse....
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