Monday, November 16, 2009

Nuchal Scan (12wks 4days)

First, obviously a photo of my growing belly! I feel like a cow and have a looooong way to go!


This is baby, sucking his thumb!



So, everything looks normal! The nuchal fold looks great and baby measures 13wks 1day. The maternal-fetal medicine doctor (Dr. Gei) is going to request that Dr. Le changes my dates (like I've been asking him to). They won't have my blood work back until Friday, but so far, so good. He did say that I have a low-laying placenta (it's partially covering my cervix), but it should move up as I get farther along. And, he wants to recheck my clotting factor to make sure I don't need heparin, as well as aspirin.
Baby was SO CUTE! He kept putting his hand to his face and opening his mouth and finally got his little thumb in there! Oh, did you notice I'm saying "He"?!?!? Since baby measured 13wks, the tech decided to take a look at gender. I saw a clear little testicle sac and weenie, but didn't say anything. Then she asked, "Do you want me to guess what it is?" I'm like, "Duh!" She said, "Now, don't go buy all blue just yet, but that's a boy and he's got a big one." I knew it! I'm going to wait until the anatomy scan before I go buy boy's things, but it's 99% all boy, baby! Six more weeks until we'll know without a doubt...do I even need to say that I can't wait!!??

1 comment:

Amanda said...

!!!!!!!!!!! so excited for you and John and Maddie!!!! I almost bought you some baby boy clothes today when I went to pick up more preggiepops at Babies R Us!!! THE BOY STUFF IS GETTING REALLY CUTE!!!! I made myself resist though, since you are waiting for the "big" scan! <3 <3 <3 Hope the docs can see what we're having next week!!!