Hello Bubble!

Today James and I went for our 19 week ultrasound. This is the common one to check all measurements. At 7:30am I drank my 2 big glasses of water and an hour later we were at the SAN Ultrasound place waiting to go in. The lady doing the ultrasound was very friendly and very good at her job. She knew exactly what she was looking at and explained each of the different bits and pieces. Overall she said that all the measurements are normal and that it looks like a beautiful baby - which we were so happy to hear.

Here are some of the photos:

Bubble in profile

Bubble's head back (I think it is laughing)

Bubble's cute feet!

Bubble's cute hands. All fingers and thumbs accounted for!

Waving hi

Alien looking Bubble

Cute looking Bubble

So all was good. Bubble was well behaved too - had its legs crossed so we didn't see if it's a girl or a boy. I can see though how people go into the ultrasound saying they won't find out the gender and then change their mind when in there. I considered it, but then decided I still want the surprise and excitement when Bubble is born.

There were a couple of little things to keep an eye on, but the lady said to not worry about them. One was that the placenta was possibly sitting low. She needed to do an internal examination to check that and said that if it was sitting 2cm lower I'd need to come back in for another ultrasound at 34/36 weeks to make sure it had moved. But all good. I was just in the safe zone. The other thing which I need to ask Dr Booker about is a long fibroid, a benign growth or something. She said it won't affect the pregnancy but pointed it out so I will follow it up to see if I should be concerned about it or not. Other than that though she said it was all good and when we chat with Dr Booker, all should be fine.

I also took a couple of photos of my belly as I have started to pop.

This is at 17.4 weeks - still not too much there

This was taken today at 19 weeks. Hello Bubble!

We also bought a rug for Bubble's room. We are getting a poster framed that was made for me. It is the start of my favourite Psalm - Psalm 139. This has a red wash over it, so James and I decided to go for a red sort of theme. While at IKEA we bought a red cushion for the rocking chair and then on Deals Direct we bought a rug. Here is a picture of how the room looks now.

 We are very happy with how Bubble's room is looking. It is coming together so well :-)

Lastly, it took the carpark chat (in other words, the parent gossip group) 1 day to find out that I am pregnant so this afternoon I had some parents congratulating me and one of my kids asked if I was having a baby. Atleast it is now out there. :-)