The OB meets Elvis

Dr. L is a very nice man. We had a very early appointment (7.15 am!) and the first thing he said was that he liked early appointments because you have to get used to early starts when the baby arrives! Anyway, nothing much happened, he took my blood pressure, a urine sample and then we took a look at Elvis with a very low-tech machine! He said immediately that they are getting a new one. At the beginning we couldn't actually see anything at all, maybe I had to have a full bladder...but I felt the scanner was just too low on my belly. In fact as soon as he moved it up a bit towards my belly button we started seeing something! To be honest with you, it wasn't nearly as defined as we had seen it before, but there was a lot of movement (and awwhs and owwhs from all of us) and then Dr. L pointed at the heart-beat which looked good and that was it.

As I had a scan just last week and I'll have one tomorrow for the NT we were all happy not insist too much to get a better picture.

We had a nice chat about various aspects of the pregnancy and how he's very much about acting as normal as possible, the only thing he felt strongly about was soft cheese! He also said to us that given our history we may get a bit anxious towards the end and all options will be open to us (elective C-section). Great to know but hopefully we won't need it at all. He asked about breast feeding too and it all felt so real (and I was so unprepared!) I think I will and he said I'll have total support in the hospital for it.

My next appointment is for the 25th of August and we have been booked in for the anatomy scan on the 8th of September. I'll have to have some blood work done also at a different location and I think I may go in at the beginning of August.

So today I'll start telling my colleagues, I'll update you on their reactions, but like you all said, this is so much more important!