Hi everyone. i had a quick look through the recent messages and I see that some of you remembered, and asked about my scan - thank you! I'm sorry I haven't been on sooner - we went away for the weekend, so this is the first chance I've had to get online. Well, we saw a heartbeat - but that was about it! Our baby has a very stubborn streak!! Apparently, about 1 in 500 women has a uterous that naturally tilts backwards instead of forwards, and I am that 1! The radiographer assured me that it doesn't make any difference to the baby, as when he/she gets bigger it'll all just move into the normal position, but it is a real pain in the neck for getting a good scan picture before 14 weeks, as the uterous, and thus the baby, is so much further back and away from the probe. Normally they get around it by doing an internal scan, but even that didn't work for me as the baby was fast asleep right by my backbone and refused to wake up and move further forward. In the end, he waved at us just before we gave up, so we're pretty sure he is OK, but just shy! The radiographer was great - he said that I was the first woman he had ever had to turn away.. but why did it have to be me?? He said that just looking by eye everything looked OK, but without a clearer picture he couldn't do the measurements and so couldn't give us any risk numbers. But equally, he hasn't charged us for the extra scan, and he's fitting me in at the end of a full clinic so that my dh can come as well, which is good of him. It's not his fault, and he really went out of his way to make me feel OK about it. Anyway, the up side is that we get to go for another scan this coming Thursday. Hopefully, this time my uterous will have grown and been pushed that much further forward, so everything will be OK. I'm really looking forward to seeing a bit more this time. I saw a rough shape, and a heartbeat, but because I had to lie 'just so' to let the radiographer get any kind of picture at all, I couldn't see the screen clearly enough to see anything more. So keep your fingers crossed for me next time...
I'll try to get back on again tomorrow, and I'll read all the messages then, so I'm sorry if I've missed anyone's news this time - but hello to everyone anyway!