OK, home now. I had my scan at the FMC, who were absolutely fine with taking bloods on Saturdays. I suppose from start to finish we were in there an hour. I'll give a complete run down of my experience just for anyone else who might be going there soon.
All a bit posh, but I still had the hospital wobbles (my knees go a bit) despite all the fancy art and squishy sofas, managed not to cry though so yay me.
Doctor was called Jeni, she was lovely. I told her I was nervous, so she got on with it straight away, I had the scanning thing on me within a minute of being in the room. I was jabbering away going on about having had lots of stomach cramps blah blah, but shut up pretty smartish when I saw the clear outline of a baby. She went straight to heartbeat, which was hammering away, and said 'ooh, congratulations..'. To which I mostly did the open mouthed thing.
She then spent ages getting all the pictures and measurements, explaining each one and pointing out all the different parts of the body, even if we couldn't see it clearly. She told me I was probably a few days ahead of where I thought I was, and put by due date sooner too. Even though it said that I didn't need a full bladder, she said I needed a fullER one for the last two things she needed. She mentioned dildocam, to which I said 'noooo, I'll have a massive drink'. While I drank, we filled in all the consent forms, she explained all the stuff (mostly for boyfriend's benefit), then we had another go with the final scan bits. All sorted this time, she printed us off 4 pictures with clear (fuzzy to anyone who didn't see them on the screen!) profiles of the face, and the whole body.
After that was done, we went to what would normally be there lab room on a week day, where she took the bloods too. She was quick and efficient, and chatted to me the whole time about everything she was doing and why she was doing it. She then showed me all the blood thingies with my name and DOB on them.
The scan time was probably 40 minutes in total, and I thought was pretty amazing (my first one ever). The pics were up on screen the whole time, we asked questions about them even when we were supposed to be sensibly filling in forms. I didn't feel rushed, she was very kind and smiley. Oh, she also made me feel less concerned about my age (40), saying 'oh no, that's perfectly fine... ', but then I suppose they probably see older mums (I don't mean older than 40, just older in general) all the time, since those are the people wanting Harmony scans.
If you can afford it and are dithering for other reasons, I would recommend it. I'm glad we've had an earlier than 12 week scan, I was turning into a basket case. I'm still a basket case now, but less of one. I suppose now the real worrying starts... erk, results.
Sorry, that's quite long.