Ferrero looking at the Portland worries me, as the NICU, if needed, can get very expensive. Benefit of the NHS hospitals is that the baby is immediately covered by NHS so any NICU etc costs are covered. Plus NHS intensive care for babies is better than private I think.
You are all making me worry I should go private though!! I am looking at a private C-Section as my insurance covers is, but there are a few worrying exceptions, the main one being if I go into labour before the planned C-Section date then I become an NHS patient again, and private won't pay even for a private room. Sigh.. too hard to think about.
Beetling I know what you mean about the groups being very TAC obsessed. Someone said recently they were leaving the group as everyone made them worry so much that they 'only' had a TVC. But, in truth it's just because most of the women have more complex and depressing problems so needed a TAC, but there are thousands of TVC's that worked perfectly well, you just don't hear so much about them.
Anyway - todays scan went perfectly! Baby looking lovely - it was in the wrong position so they couldn't check everything but all they could see looked fine. So... I guess not perfectly... but good enough for me to see a happy baby bouncing around in there. And another scan next week. :)
They couldn't see the heart, however at FMC I think they did a really good check of the heart at 12 weeks. Showed all the ventricles pumping and blue and red blood in the right places so I'm hopeful that will still all be ok. Lovely picture that will go on the fridge tonight.
Euro good point that there a lots of nice reassuring milestones coming up soon enough. I think at 28 weeks I will feel more confident, and I'm going on Mat leave around 30 weeks so that will be when I can really slow down and make sure the baby holds tight as long as possible.
wow - this became very long! Hope everyone is well.