First official photo and new due date!

That's right, we had our first scan today (US translation: ultrasound). It was very last minute...had a phone call at 10 asking if I could come in at 2:30! (The hospital never receieved my original referral from my GP, so my midwife sent through a referral on Thursday, so I guess I went on a cancellation list.) Luckily, Paul was able to meet me at the hospital. I first had a blood test (testing for risk factors for Down's syndrome and a couple of other rare genetic disorders). Then we waited for about an hour before we got in for the scan.

Seeing the baby was very fun, s/he moved around a lot and was even sucking their thumb a few times (so cute!). The technician measured all sorts of things and took pictures of both hands and feet, head, bladder!, spine, abodmen, head, and the cord (and we watched the blood flow too which she made red and blue with some fancy tool). We heard the heartbeat too: 156bpm. The baby is 6.26cm from crown to rump (2.5 inches). And judging from all these measurements and stuff I am 12weeks 4 days pregnant our EDD (estimated due date) is March 12th.

Blood work and scan measurements showed the risk for Down's and the other genetic disorders is considered to be low. Hurrah!

One slight concern which was spotted first was that I have what looks like a fibroid on my uterus (official medical name: fundal subserosal anterior fibroid mass). It's 9.2cm x 7.8cm x 10.2 cm (3.6in x 3.1in x 4in) and I can feel it in my abdomen (I previously had thought it was the womb). She said there is some blood flow in it, so it's unlikely to be a tumor and she spoke with the doctor on call and she said that they'll monitor it at my next scan. There's not much they can do about it now anyway since I'm already pregnant. She said it means I might have more discomfort in my pregnancy, but shouldn't affect much else. I was doing a bit of reading and apparently they're fairly common in women and the cause isn't known.

In the waiting room we randomly ran into one of our downstairs neighbours who are due about a week after us! Another downstairs neighbour is also preggo and a bit further along. We all have the same midwife. How random (well probably not random about the midwife, but that we are all preggers)! There must be something in our water:).

We also scheduled my next scan (20 weeks) for Oct 30th, which also happens to be our anniversary!

PS I had to pay £2.00 to get a copy of the ultrasound!