Scan...

5 weeks pregnant

I had my early pregnancy scan today, and the happy, happy, glorious news is that there is a heartbeat!

We had a bit of a mess up at the hospital, we turned up early after a rather restless nights sleep (me and my partner have never been more worried) and were told to sit in the waiting area, where we waited...30 minutes later we still hadn't been called, so we asked the receptionist how much longer it would be, she went through one set of double doors, came back and said that it wouldn't take too long, we then waited another 40 minutes, slowly getting more and more anxious, before a nice nurse came over and asked why had been waiting so long, we explained, at which point she told us we'd been waiting in the wrong waiting room, and we in fact needed to have been waiting through a different set of double doors. at which point I will blame pregnancy hormones on the tears that I cried.

The scan itself was a vaginal ultrasound (because at this point the baby is far too small to see on a normal ultrasound) which luckily I knew was coming, so wore a long skirt rather than trousers, so all I needed to do was take off my knickers and jump on a bench, my partner...lets call him Coyote, came in with me and held my hand through it all.
The nice ultra sound ladies have massively bad poker faces, last time I was pregnant and lost the baby, I didn't know anything was wrong until my dating scan when they found that my baby was too small and had no heartbeat, and I knew something was wrong the second I saw the look on her face. This time round I knew it was all OK the second they made 'OMG cute baby!' faces, they then showed me the most wonderful sight in the world, my baby and its heart beat.
Baby is just 2mm big, and its heartbeat was like a little flicker on the screen, I also discovered I am not in fact 7 weeks pregnant, but 5 weeks, which actually makes it very lucky that they found the baby on the scan, and even luckier they spotted the heartbeat. So I am due some point mid April (fingers crossed!!!!)

Thank you God and st.Margaret of Antioch (patron saint of pregnant women)! Thank you that everything is OK!!!