Someone wants to say HELLO!

Friday 18th May
Loppy 12+5


So our 12 week scan showed a perfect little Loppy measuring one day less than before (due date now on Nanny Elliott’s birthday 25th November) and a perfectly chilled out little baby!

If you look closely you can see that our little baby is smiling!

I was pretty nervous but certainly not overly so, and the sonnographer found the heartbeat straight away.  Loppy was very chilled out and not manically moving about like Sparty was.  There were some movements of hand to mouth and he turned over a few times.  I had to cough to get him to move up so that she could do the neck measurement but apart from that he was behaving!


Notice that i’m still saying ‘he’ well we don’t know the gender and we’re not going to find out but I’m leaning towards a girl - just because of the vast differences between pregnancies and between babies.
I loved seeing my baby on the screen, you could totally tell that it’s a different baby too - I know that sounds weird but who would have thought that the scans do look different!


The scan didn’t take long at all as Loppy was so well behaved and quiet.  I especially liked seeing the toes and fingers,hands, wrists etc.. very clearly defined.


The NT measurment came out just 1mm more than Sparty at 1.4mm so hopefully that will mean my downsyndrome risk will be low again.  I should get the results by post next week. (phone, please don’t ring!)


Our next scan is just 10 days away now and i’m a little in the dark about it all actually.  I very much doubt that they’ll sign us off after 14 weeks but I wonder how much they’ll actually be able to see at that stage?  I’m hoping that they’ll be able to at least give us good news - wait and see I guess.


That's the main news really.  Other than i’m still really sick, its gotten worse over the last few weeks again and i’ve been sick numerous times now.  I still don’t think as bad as before but maybe i’m just more used to it now more than ever.  I’m hoping that it will go away by 16 weeks like last time (although nothing has been the same with this one so who knows)


I think that i’m less tired now (bedtime around 9:30 not 8pm!) but my uterus is still on my bladder as the constant need to wee is still there.  The uterus should start to move upwards in the next few weeks so hopefully that symptom will ease soon.


I’ll report back soon.  I’m on the 3 month countdown with work now too!


Love Helen and Loppy
x x x