how did you feel when you saw the first scan?

[MakiJ]

Hi all I had my first scan today, wanted to see how everyone else felt after seeing the little one chilling inside you?

Relieved. I knew I was pregnant because of the raging morning sickness but the scan seemed to finally confirm it.

To be honest I felt nothing at my first scan for DC1. It was a bit anticlimactic. The sonographer had a student with her and was more focused on telling her what was on the screen and I couldn't really see anything until about 30 seconds at the end. The scan photo wasn't very good either.

My 12 wk scans for DC2 and 3 were far better though (different hospital) and I felt really emotional at seeing DC3 for some reason!

I cried. It was my 4th pregnancy after a series of miscarriages and I couldn't quite believe there was actually a baby there.

Weirdly calm and relieved. It was an early reassurance scan and I really expected to be more involved emotionally. I mean I was happy but not ecstatic. The nausea and spaced out feelings from the anti-emetics may have had something to do with it though!

Aww bless everyone I was like that too relieved, "oh it's really there " because I had zero symptoms talking about a student I had a midwifery work experience person at my first assessment felt weird I guess most of you would or have had found out the sex of your baby at the 20 weeks scan? Or if you chose to leave it as a surprise I would love to know how you prepared / are preparing for the new arrival, buying clothes, planning etc.

Congratulations.
With 2 of my dc i didn't know what gender they were. You buy white/yellow/ cream/green. Its no different.

Thank you I see, I'm not too keen on blue pink business so I will definitely follow your advice

Relieved that there was only one baby in there!

When they started scanning I thought 'that looks like two separate blobs of baby, nah I can't be having twins!' A minute later the scanner said 'well here is baby one... And here is baby two!' We were they are here now and cannot imagine just having one

Wow it must've been such an extraordinary feeling to see two in you I was like oh at least one is there cool felt relieved - yes yes definitely

I felt relieved to see my baby there and also relieved that there was only one as my parents were convinced I'd be having twins! Though to be honest, I think I would have been pretty thrilled if there were twins in there! Felt very happy, on cloud nine after scan, very exciting!

Sounds weird but both times I was shocked there was really a baby there! Makes me sound a bit mad but I kept convincing myself all the tests were mistaken and I was imagining the symptoms seeing the scans was a mix of relief, shock, worry and happiness!

sounds like everyone felt relieved happy shocked all mixed feelings but happy my lovely partner was crying for joy

relieved, but not "happy relieved" more "thank god it's okay but still traumatised by the stress" relieved.

I find scans really stressful, by the time they come around I'm convinced there's something wrong, and lets face it, the point of NHS scans is to look for problems. If you believed facebook you'ld think they were just put on for a fun and

Mainly I felt overwhelming relief that the little beastie was in there (until then I'd almost convinced myself it was some kind of mistake), I also felt quite proud of my fattish, oldish body for creating a little tiny being. I wept one solitary tear of pure relief.

Our 20 week scan (actually at 22 weeks) was much the same, except this time I was amazed at how clever the human body is, creating a tiny and fully functioning heart.

So true the lady who was doubt the scan wasn't talking much for the whole time during the scan I was like ah... Is everything ok ? I so agree, human body is incredible

I didn't have many pregnancy symptoms and we'd been trying for a year, so when I saw him in there, his heart beating and his arms and legs moving, I damn near bawled. Avoided the full on ugly cry, but was definitely a weepy mess.

Laughed through the 20 week scan. He would just not stay still! DH was definitely more emotional.

Shocked. DD was a happy accident and I don't think either DH or I believed it was really happening until we saw her wiggling around on the monitor. TBH I still had a little bit of me that doubted she was real until I held her... We both walked out of the scan stunned in astonishment.

This time we both let out a breath of relief there was just one in there!

Overwhelming relief, I was sure there would be nothing in there.

Oysterbabe ** me too, I kept saying before the scan, oh I hope it's there

Relieved, happy, amazed! And worried about if DH was ok as I thought he'd be emotional, and it was too dark to see him. The scan room was tiny so he was sitting at the end of the bed gripping my ankles really tight because he couldn't hold my hand!

Oddly numb.
I'd been lightly spotting the week before and cramping in my back so I thought I was out. When I pulled down my knickers before the scan, the spotting was much darker and there was way more of it, so I really thought it was game over.
She scanned me, said "oh look, there it is" and I thought "here we go, she's going to say there's no heartbeat," so I steeled myself for that. And then she said "and there's the heartbeat!" and I just looked at my partner in complete disbelief.
Then she said it was a week younger than my calculations which sent me into a tailspin, oh my god, was it growing??? and then she corrected herself. (I had IVF so it's not a matter of guesswork when it was fertilised) I only felt relief when we walked out to the car.

The second scan, a week later, was much more joyous. And I had a student with the doc, so I got an extra nerdy tour of my uterus and its features. The baby wiggled which was awesome.

Relieved everything was OK, relieved it wasn't twins, nervous and excited for the future, started to plan how to tell my boss etc.

Aww glad everything was OK seasonticket **

Felt amazed with DS1 and DS2

This current pregnancy followed four miscarriages - two of which were missed miscarriages found on scans at about 12 weeks. So this time at the 12 week scan I was bracing myself for bad news. And when they said it was still alive I didn't feel happy - just numb. I wa thinking its here now but may or may not be here next time. I didn't want to get attached to it just in case.