13week Scan

Actually it was 12 weeks plus 6 days - but who's counting?

Saw baby on screen and have a print out so it's certainly not a tumour, or at least, not only a tumour...

Singleton baby so no need to worry about having to dispose of brand new eight seater car and buy some old Maidstone&District green number...

Saw two arms and two legs plus spine and ribs so it is reasonably human in form. It was waving its arms around randomly in front of its face so I don't know if that is an omen about the disabled guy in the video on Sunday... hopefully not... also did see a mentally ill woman leaving gyn office with her helper, screaming because she did not want to (or was afraid to) walk down the three steps to the pavement.

Had my blood taken for the PAPP-A and free-HCG. Results should be back on Thursday or Friday. The odds of a Downs baby at my age is 1:380. Gynae woman said that when the odds come back they will be in that range as the age of the woman is a large factor in the calculation (the two hormone levels, the nuchal translucency measurement, my age and the baby's Crown-To-Rump length). She said when the figures come back we can either take them as they are (1:200 is a 199 chance that the baby will not have Downs') or compared to the result just for my age (Oh dear, my odds are even worse than the average for my age...)

The measurement for NT was 1.71, 1.71 and 1.73 which is within the normal range. If I was a younger woman then the odds would be good...

So I am none the wiser or more assured, really. Obviously I am assured that the baby is not grossly malformed, although 13 week scans are largely poor quality (in my opinion).

Simon is pleased and overly reassuring, obviously, because he is a man.

But at least I am definitely pregnant, and not eating confectionary in gross volumes for nothing.