Saturday, November 8, 2014

12 week NT scan

This week brought the 1st Trimester Screening scan and bloodwork.

The baby was so uncooperative. First he was face down which is exact opposite of the way that he needed to be in order to measure the nucheal translucency. Finally, he moved but he was then facing us. *Sigh* We did get a front of the face picture:

She measured all the rest of the things she needed- my right ovary is now not visible but apparently that's normal. The left ovary that has the cyst--the cyst hasn't grown so we're in good shape there. It's still around the 3cm mark. *Whew* When she moved back to baby, he was finally on his back! But, the antics weren't finished. He kept kicking off the wall of the uterus and then as he 'pushed away', he arched his back. It was like a game. Every time the tech tried to check the heartrate, he'd do it. Finally, she was able to get a piece of the heartrate to measure and it was 151bpm but I'm not sure how accurate that is. And then he kept his hands up by his face. What a kid. I'm in for it when I can actually feel all this movement going on.



NT looked to be about 1.77 which from what I can find is in the normal limits. Here's hoping my bloodwork comes back with good numbers as well!


After the appointment, I got a call about 4pm. Scared me because I knew they wouldn't have the results of the testing until at least 10 days. The doctor wanted to make sure that I was aware of the partial placenta previa. This doctor seemed more concerned and told me that even having an orgasm could cause problems. Yes, just what I wanted to talk to a doctor about--orgasms, LOL. On restriction until they can check it again at my 20 week ultrasound, unless I have bleeding- which as said before, requires me to go to the ER if it's after hours or call the doc during office hours. Praying it moves because I really don't want to have to worry about abruption for the next 28 weeks.