Little Bouncy Hamster

The Scan, in short, was amazing.
I was so nervous I couldn't eat much breakfast at all. Then I was struggling to drink the amount of water required to inflate my bladder in order to push the uterus into a position they could see it. So by the time we arrived - a whole half hour early - I was pretty sure they weren't going to see anything, even there was something to see. And it would be all my fault.

However, luck was in our favour! The 8am appointment never showed up, so at 8.10 we were ushered down a series of maze like corridors into a darkened room with a giant screen on the wall.

First thing I did? I looked around to see what I could possible throw up into should I get to that point.
(Threat checking again!!)

I lay down, exposed my tummy, and closed my eyes. Determined that if there was something wrong then I didn't want to see it, I just wanted to be let down gently.
My Husband gasped and said 'Oh Wow!'

Eyes open.

There it was. A teeny, tiny human creature larger than life on the screen before us.
We certainly didn't need training in radiography to be able to tell for ourselves, there was definitely a baby in there.

Not going to lie, there were tears from both of us. Laughter too as we watched baby jumping on the walls of my uterus as though it were a trampoline.

The radiographer was having a hard time trying to capture the images needed as the little monkey kept twisting and turning.

Two arms, two hands, ten fingers, two legs and feet, a head, a tiny beating heart. Everything was just where it should be.

At one point it rolled over and faced us, showing us it's terrifyingly alien like face at which we all cried 'roll back baby!"

After all that stress of the first 12 weeks, it's amazing to finally have a picture. To know it's real. To know that I haven't eaten something or taken too hot a bath and ruined it all somehow. Husband is now finally letting himself be excited too. We can finally start looking at baby furniture and other cute things - and we finally let the facebook universe know!

For the meantime, I am not anxious right now. Just very, very excited. I'm even starting to feel ok about the prospect of labour, as that means I will finally get to meet the little bean.