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Wednesday 18 April 2007
at 11 weeks 6 days

we had our first ultrasound earlier this afternoon and it was every bit as amazing as i knew it would be

right up until today, i was so so anxious that i was a professional hypocondriac, and that i was dreaming everything so far. but there was absolutely nothing to worry about, nothing to be anxious about.

we were there for about 2 hours (their computers had gone down so there was alot of waiting) but we saw our beautiful baby on this HUGE flat screen they have set up. it was like a movie theatre!! (i want it!) briefly, she turned the sound on/up and we heard a loud thumping heartbeat (168bpm) which stunned us completely as we weren't expecting it.

we saw it's little heartbeat flicker on the screen, it's arms and legs flail about for brief moments and, true to Tracey form, it's stubborness to move from a head down position. you'll often find me like that on the couch. with a bag of corn chips. niiiice.

Regan and I were told our chances of any genetic defects were very low - 1 in 18,359 chances of down syndrome; 1 in 33,467 chances of edward's syndrome or patau's syndrome. if it were 1 in 300 or below, then they'd consider us high risk. we could very well be high risk still (tests are about 90% accurate) but we're at least confident the baby is in there and doing ok.

another thing they mentioned was that they thought i was a few days further along, 12 weeks 5 days, but because the bloods matched my original calculations, they said to stay on track.

tomorrow i'm 12 weeks with a permanent smile on my face