3:36pm Friday 15th August 2008
By First Timer
It’s been a real rollercoaster of a week, and undoubtedly the most scary.
My husband and I went for a 16 week check with the midwife at our local surgery, everything went well until she asked if I wanted to hear the baby’s heartbeat – well, I wasn’t going to refuse that.
Up I got on the couch, on went the gel and the midwife was using the probe to look for the heartbeat. There was nothing. She pushed the probe all over my stomach. There was no sign. I felt sick.
She said that the baby was probably lying in the wrong position and that I should make an appointment to come back shortly when the baby might have moved. I tried to be very grown up, I made the new appointment and tried not to worry.
But as time went on I became more and more concerned. I’ve not felt the baby move at all, even though my sister felt both of her children before week 15.
The next day I found a clinic, near where we used to live, that could see us at short notice on the following afternoon.
The time leading up to the appointment dragged – I thought it would never end. We set off three hours early for a journey that would take just over an hour, the weather was appalling and we didn’t want to get caught up in jams.
Despite the awful rain the journey was perfect and we sailed through to the clinic in excellent time. Even better, the clinic had a cancellation and saw us two hours earlier than our original appointment time.
Everything was FINE. The baby is growing really well, we’ve seen the heart, bladder, kidneys, the brain and the nasal bone. Furthermore, we have seen our child empty his/her bladder – a rare treat!
The doctor was lovely and explained everything to us so clearly. We got three scan images, they’re not brilliant but we don’t mind – they’re not fabulous because the baby is a real jiggler!
Every time a scan image was being taken up went the head, or the arm would wave or the body would twist – great!
In my first blog I said I didn’t want to fall in love with the little life inside me – well, what a pointless thing to say. Of course I love this little one, desperately. And it took this week to show me this.
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