22 Weeks

Well a lot has happened in the last few weeks since I last posted.  

Nothing serious or scary but lots of nice baby related events/milestones.

Probably the most important was the 20 week scan.  Everything was perfect.  Baby behaved and laid very still for the trainee sonographer to measure the inflow and outflow of the heart.  Me and John sat mesmerised watching the 4 chambers and the valves moving around.  It was brilliant.  She kept apologising for taking so long but I was happy to sit and watch my baby all day long if I could.  We saw the brain and the "figure of 8" cerebellum and it was the correct shape and size so reduced risk of Spina bifida and Down's.  I didn't have the tests for those as it probably wouldn't have altered our position but it was a great relief to know everything looks good.  

All measurements were normal and within the averages so that's good.  

We didn't want to know the sex so they didn't really go looking round there!  he he

One of the most mermorable parts of the scan was when they were looking at the brain and as they moved the probe thing down the crossection of the head we saw his/her ears!  John was amazed by that! We got a good look at the front of the face and checked for cleft pallet and everything looked great.  

Here are some photos of the scan - bit upset she gave us copies of the same image but hey never mind.  

I especially like this one as you can see the true profile of the nose.  Although my mum was worried about the distinct lack of body (baby's body is off to it's right and we can see the cord on his/her shoulder)