OK - another War and Peace message from me, about my hospital appointment. For those of you without the time or inclination to read it - everything was fine .
Saw Chip behaving himself on screen - looking nice and laid back, but most importantly with his little heart beating away. They measured him at 11+5, which is one day further on than the 8+3 scan said, and changes my due date to 2nd Feb instead of 3rd. Not a lot in a day really so may as well go along with them!
The midwife was lovely too, but I prob won't see her again, as most of my appointments will be with the community midwife at my GP's surgery. She totally understood my reasons for not wanting any downs testing, and discussed what they may or may not be able to tell in relation to this at the 20 week scan, which I now have booked.
She took loads of blood for all the fairly standard tests, and booked me an appointment for a glucose tolerance test at 28 weeks. I was pleasantly surprised that my weight is just low enough that they wouldn't do this test based just on my BMI, but there's a family history of diabetes so they do it as standard anyway.
She took my blood pressure which was 100/60, which she said was fine as blood pressure normally drops a bit during pregnancy.
I then saw the consultant, and discovered that I was referred to him because I'd had an episode of SVT (supra-ventricular tacchycardia) a couple of years ago. After asking a few questions and listening to my heart, he was happy that he didn't need to see me again unless I felt that there was something wrong (heart was investigated at the time and found to be in perfect working order).
So that was it - there for about 1.5 hours in all!