Hello all,
Well, I'm back from my scan and can proudly announce that I'm TEAM BLUE! I've got rather mixed feelings about it, to be perfectly honest. There is definitely a pang of disppointment - not because THIS baby is a boy, because I adore my DS and I'm delighted to be having another little boy, but because I know I'll never have a daughter (this is definitely our last - DH and I are in total agreement on that ). So I'm slightly in mourning for my little Lara (which is what we always knew we would call a girl), while being really excited about having a boy. It's a weird feeling. DH reminded me that we would potentially save a fortune on wedding costs , while I reminded him that we have no idea what we're going to call another boy .
More importantly, of course, everything seemed to be absolutely fine with our little man. He was very active and wriggly, and for some reason I found it particularly amazing to see his spine and all his little ribs. At one point he suddenly turned round to look straight 'into camera', which you'd think would be cute but was actually a bit freaky!!
After the scan, I had a totally meeting with the consultant. I told her I didn't know why I'd been referred, and she said that she didn't really know either. She was completely off-hand about the retained placenta and non-progressing labour last time, and spent most of the time going through the procedure for breech babies, because BabyMoose is currently breech, even though she said it was far too early to start worrying about presentation at 20 weeks .
Anyway, I've just celebrated the scan with a lovely calzone at Ask, followed by a wholly unnecessary Snickers when I got home.
Better go and tell some less important people my news now (you know, like relatives ). Sorry for the all-me post - I'll probably be back later. Good luck to Blueberries and Hector!
ps Cherrypie, would you mind updating the list for me? I don't know how to keep all your bold settings.