Good evening to all (sounds posh - I think I may be rambling this eve....) and thank you again so much for all your messages. It made me feel quite emotional (again, and it's been an emotional day) to read one after another of all your good wishes.
Well so far so good. The procedure went fine today. The consultant and midwives were excellent - the consultant kept me chatting about DS1's school - she wants her DD to go there - to distract me during the procedure. DH watched the screen - I watched the ceiling!
It was hard though. Especially seeing LO leaping about on the scan before and after the procedure. You have to decide if you want to know the sex and I first said I would only want to know if the news was good if you see what I mean, but then on the spot I thought - how could I do that to the little bean? If I need to let go of him/her I must at least acknowledge them and try to know everything I can about them (am crying again while typing this - and sorry if tmi for you all).
But anyway. Results apparently will be Wednesday or Thursday, not tomorrow, so still a bit of a wait. I'm staying off work for a couple of days due to being in such a state so will be on and posting tomorrow like a normal person I hope!
Cornflakekid - the bloods (and my age, bigtime) were what pushed me into the high risk area. At this stage they look for AFP (preg hormone) and PAPP-A (sp?) which is a kind of protein. High risk is when the AFP is too high and the PAPP-A is too low. They were assuring me at the hospital today that people very often have what they called "wonky bloods"(!) for no discernible reason at all, which is of course what I'm hoping (I need a fingers crossed emoticon!).