We had our appointment with Dr Paul Patten at AOC for the first USS, which lasted a little over an hour.
The USS is telling us two things:
- It's a mover. I'm starting to feel sorry for myself already.
- I'm actually 9 weeks & 2 days pregnant.
We managed to get four printouts of Tadpole, two of which are pretty clear thanks to Dr Yvonne Lake who honed on it like a pro.
It's currently at 2.57ish cm, which is giving us a pretty clear indication that my cycles would be 5 weeks not 4. Or something like that. Anyway, it would then be conceived on 10 February. ETA (or EDD) would be around 17 November. If it arrives just 5 days later, it will then not be a Scorpio (Bas reckons that Leos and Scorpios don't overly get on) but a little archer. In any case it will be a good shot like its mum.
We went through the blood results, which indicated that my red blood cells are a bit skinnier than the average (slightly abnormal haemoglobin E), which seems to be a South East Asian trait. Must be all that rice I'm eating. In itself, not much of a big deal, however it will become if we found out that Bas happens to have the same abnormality too, so he'll be in for a blood sample too to have a full blood count. I'd give more details of what tests he exactly needs to see, but the guy writes like a doctor.
Blood pressure is about normal, 100 over 60 (or maybe it was 60 over 100?). Doctor said that the reason why I feel so full is because of my bowel expanding so I could take in as much of the nutrients as I could. Yuck.
Next appointments are:
- Nuchal Transluscency scan with Insight Radiology on 14/05 at 10:00. This is to determine the risk of Trisomy 21.
- Follow-up appointment with Dr Martin Sowter on 24/05 at 13:45
- Follow-up appointment with Dr Lynda Batcheler on 21/06 at 10:30.
And we're $500 poorer. Not counting the $16,100 I paid for my new car.
So I've told Thomas, whose reaction was fairly comical as he blinked a couple of times before he thought about saying "Congratulations". Vaughan was pretty sweet, giving us a baby top/uniform/jumpsuit thingy, and a card.
Now I've got all these forms from HR to fill in. I remember seeing these forms four years ago even before I started my employment and working on their workflow.
And I threw up for the second time :(
Was a painful one too. And the two Augmentins I took for breakfast and lunch both went bye-bye. So did half of my erwtensoep.
And I love KitKat.
