made it to 12 weeks - yipeeeee

[RealityGap]

I am in shock at how quickly it has passed! although also in shock that I have known about the baby for 9 weeks today - (I was 12 weeks on Friday) and have only bought 3 sleepsuits and a cardi for the baby............

[Debs]

:cheer: blimey 12 weeks already :eek: only seems like yesterday you told me!!!!!! :eek: your pregnancy is going to fly by!!

[Jojo]

12 weeks :cheer: Yay - its flown by!!! I'm so pleased RG these next 6 months are going to fly by!! :D :D

[chance]

Have you got to go for your early scan rg or have you decided not to go for it?

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Hi Chance I had the early scan last Tuesday - baby looks fine :) Having a nuchal scan today :) - I can't wait :)

[Trinity]

Great news RG, congratulations!

(What is a nuchal scan?)

[Jojo]

Nuchal is where they take a measurement from the back of baby's neck - they have discovered that a high measurement (over a certain amount) can be an indicator of downs syndrome.

Good luck hun - hope everything goes ok - make sure you let us know :D

[RealityGap]

The nuchal scan went well - it measured 1.1 (3 is the cut of for normal but the thinner the better) waiting on the blood results but the Dr said that she would be shocked if I was anything but in the very low risk category

The baby was so active - really wriggling about and head butting which was so funny to watch - glad that DH managed to get along for it :)

[Jojo]

Thats brilliant news RG - I'm so pleased! And even better that he could make it too. Is your next one at 20w?? Are you going to find out the sex or wait for the surprise?

[Chloe O'brien]

So glad that everything is fine and healthy with both you and the baby RG

[RealityGap]

yes next one is at 20 weeks - we were hoping to find out - I am not the most patient person in the world - but the hospital we are ats policy is not to look for the sex of the baby - so don't know if we will get to find out before bubs is born - although we have spoken about doing a 3d/4d scan so would hopefully find out then

[Jojo]

That would be amazing - a 3d/4d scan!!

I'm not patient either - almost hated not knowing what liam was till he arrived lol.

I know a lot of hospitals wont say, in case of people suing them etc if they are wrong.

[RealityGap]

we get so many scans due to the diabetes - I get on every 4 weeks towards the end to check for growth - so I get to know the scanners really well so I am hoping that they might let it slip or at least let me see so I can make up my own mind

I think that it is silly people would sue the hospitals they always tell you that they cant be 100% sure

[Jojo]

It annoys me - when I was pregnant, I used to look up scan pics on the net of different stages (sad i know lol) and there were ones where it showed you a scan of a boy and of a girl - theres no way i could have told the difference. Its surprising how similar they are at 20 weeks. I remember with Ciaran, even though it was extremely clear he was a boy, the sonographer still said 90% and said that they had had a lot of people putting in complaints because they were wrong.

Is the diabetes going ok? Have you still got it under control?

[Chloe O'brien]

My bumb stop growing at 30 weeks so I had to attend the hospital everyweek to have a scan to check that Marley was growing properly but we were unable to tell what sex she was as she was lying on her side.

[Jojo]

We had a scan at 32 weeks with Liam as they thought he was too big and they said the later on in pregnancy you are, the harder to tell the sex apparently...

[RealityGap]

we had a perfect "money" shot with christopher - you could clearly see all the boy parts - and the same happened with Sarah - with little girls early on you are looking for 3 white lines

I guess we are set no matter what we have since we have 1 of each already

the diabetes will never be undercontrol as my requirements change so much through the pregnancy - but I am coping with it - just means I have to make sure I have chocolate in my handbag all the time and am careful to have snacks through the day to keep my sugars stable