So Wednesday was the big day...ultrasound day! This is our first and I assume provided everything goes normally (knock on wood) this will be our only. What an experience it is. First your doctor tells you to go and drink a bunch of water before the appointment. Okay fine. The downside...don't go to the washroom an hour before your appointment. If you ever want to torture someone there's how you do it. And I lucked out apparently! My co-worker a few years ago was told to drink 4 glasses of water instead of the 2 I was told to take. I made it through 1.5 and that was it. There was no way another 1/2 glass was going in.
So Hubby and I drive off to the hospital and I'm glad we left early. Parking is a nightmare to find in the middle of the day. Lord help us if I get pregnant during the morning or afternoon. Hubby will have to drop me off then it would almost be better for him to go home, park the car and take transit in. Or better yet maybe we'll both just take transit in. I'm sure Skytrain won't mind a pregnant lady in labour traveling would they?
Thankfully there was no wait and I was able to get in right away. The first thing the technician check was my bladder and she said the most wonderful words I wanted to hear "Okay that's way to full. You need to go to the bathroom." Best words ever to a pregnant woman about to have an ultrasound. Apparently too she told me this was the old way of doing things. Now you don't have to drink all the water before hand. Just make sure you don't go to the washroom an hour before your appointment and you're fine!
So she has me in the room by myself (Hubby had to wait down the hall in the waiting room) and she measures the baby for about 20 minutes. I felt bad because every time she got near my left size it would tickle. After she was done Hubby was let back in and both of us were finally able to see the baby. Can I just say that modern technology is a wonderful thing. I could not believe the detail of the baby. It's little legs, arms, head. You could really see the skull and eye sockets (hence why it looked a little alien like to me). She also showed us it's heart beating away but the best part though was the hands. Usually the hands are closed in a fist and our little one had all 5 fingers on one had out and even started to wave at us. It almost brought me to tears.
In the end baby is normal and healthy and showing good progress. It's in the 59 percentile for growth so just above average (please stay little). I go to see the doctors on Monday so I'm sure we'll be talking about the scan. As for now we have these two photos which are amazing! Can't wait to meet our little one now!
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