Update

I'm notoriously bad at remembering to update my blog.

But I feel I should get some of this down. We are having a little boy:-)

I have to wonder at the medical proffenions mindset though, when we recieved the nuchal scan results suggesting a high chance of Edwards, and Downs syndrome, we questioned it. I knew that the scan had not been done properly, but even when I tried to explain this to an OB my GP refferd me to, he said that "These scans are rarely wrong, and the best way to check is with an amnio"

Wrong. The best way to check, is to have a bloody look at the films, but he couldn't be bothered seeing me.

We refused to have the amnio done, and waited until 19 weeks for the Women's and Children's to have a look.

Guess what?? The high Nuchal measurement was a typo!! Had this expert actualy sat down with us, and had a look at the film, he could have seen that the measurement was 1mm, not 4mm, and the report itself was wrong.

We'd just like to thank all the medical ppl who couldn't be arsed to double check the findings, and who wanted to go straight to a test that carries a risk of killing the baby. Shame on you!!

A HUGE thankyou to our independant midwife, who said that she thought that my instincts were correct, and that there was something up with the results.

yay

The baby is moving....

groan

well...

the house is a disaster, I keep getting colds, and no Christmasn Shopping has been done. Mostly because my Christmas money will not arrive for a few more days though:)

I will have my next scan with bub soon to determine how things are developing. They can sod off if they thing they will be doing anything more invasive than that!

sigh

I find myslef wondering how much of these tests are all in the numbers. For instance causing a pregnant woman to nealry have a heart attack, because the baby might have a higer chance of trsiomy 21 and 18, just because Mum is "old". And the woman who did the nuchal scan did a shitty job! how can you not "find" and ovary???? Easy, you forget to even look, and then say "it's not my fault, it's the Mum, she's fat!!

For the record, I might be a bit heavier than I was before, but ultra sound works on morbidly obese people, so I resent the implication, that I'm at fault for stupidity and laziness.

And no we won't be having anything more invasive done testwise, as we are not going to terminate, so what's the point?

gripe gripe!

The funny thing is, I'm Pro choice, always have been, always will be. Perhaps the medical profession needs to understand that this means,I beleive that all women have the absolute right to determine what happens to their own body. This means that you do not ever have the right to tell a women that she has to contine with a pregnancy, and in the same line of thought, you don't ever assume that a woman should not contine with a pregnancy either.

grrrr

1st scan!

Well, there is only one bub in there:-)

as it turns out though, he or she is slightly too small to do the nucal scan thing, so I have to go back in a week. However, we could see a tiny heartbeat, a tiny skull, and arms and legs, so things look good so far:-)

Limbo

I feel a bit like I'm in limbo here with this pregnancy. I know I'm pregnant, but it's still too early to feel and movement, or have a bump and I haven't had a scan yet.

and I get worried because I've now been sick for 2 weeks, and I can't help but worry that it's been bad for the baby:(

Dear *** Childcare

the childcare centre just did something really stupid. DS is fine, and happy, but another child also called ***** was just picked up by his grandma, and someone called *** at *** called me instead of this other child's family, asking if it was ok that he had just been picked up.

2 things

1 they called the wrong person, and for a minute I thought that DS was missing, I'm still shaking

2 they allowed someone else to pick up this other child and THEN checked if it was ok.

I don't know what to do:( I'm really very stressed by all of this.