Week 9 - Meeting Baby Parker

This week we had our first ultrasound! Our appointment was for 10am and we arrived - me shivering because I had just finished drinking 2 Litres of cold water - and waited to go in. It all went pretty quickly. I went in first and laid down while she gelled my stomach. A few minutes passed by and she didn't say a word. Eek..I started to get a bit nervous. Finally, I just piped out "Please tell me there's a baby in there"...and she smiled and said "of course" (almost as if she was thinking, why wouldn't there be! lol). So I was relieved and grinning from ear to ear. She wouldn't let me see the screen but did her thing and then went to get Nathan so we could see together. Wow. SO neat, surreal and still unbelievable. We saw the baby's heartbeat and could see its body no problem. He/she was moving around like crazy...even the technician remarked that the baby was very active, already at 9 weeks. All I could think, is hopefully it isn't a sign of things to come! lol I asked if we could get a picture (as sometimes they don't give them this early) and she printed one off, and it didn't do little Baby Parker justice. He/She looked like a blob. lol I wanted to ask for another picture, as the ones we saw on the screen were much better, but thought that may be a little too demanding. :) The whole experience was only about 15 minutes, much quicker than I imagined, but such a great experience to finally "meet" our little one. We'll be going in for our next ultrasound at Week 20 and then we'll be doing the 3D ultrasound with UC Baby at around Week 28.

The doctor said that according to the heartbeat and activity of the baby, there is only a 1.5% chance of miscarrying from here on in. That is such great news and a sigh of relief. Everything seems to be progressing well!!