NT Scan

It's time!

I've officially entered the twelfth week of this pregnancy, we've "passed" our NT screening, and all immediate family members have gotten the news.  The blog is ON!

This is officially my first post, but I'll be going back and adding in a few items from before we went public in an effort to get as much down as possible.

For now, this post is about the NT scan today.

I guess I got confused on the time of my appointment and Marti almost missed it!  Thank goodness he was able to leave the instant he got the message and made it for most of the scan.  Even better was that the scan was a good one!

At nearly 42 years of age, Down Syndrome is a definite risk.  When she was finally able to measure the nuchal fold, I was VERY relieved to see measurements in the 1.7-1.8 range!  The geneticist later told us that anything under 2.0 is what they like to see and is considered normal.

Of course, there was the follow up blood draw, of which we will get the results Wednesday or Thursday, but I don't expect contradictory results there.

We also got to hear the heartbeat again and it was in the 175-185 range.  The baby was very active and not exactly cooperative in getting the measurements that were needed, but it was still good to see so much activity!  (Plus, I think this lack of cooperation prolonged the scan and allowed Marti time to get there to see most of it!)

We got the whole thing on DVD when we checked out and a CD of every image she stopped on for measurements or whatever.

Also, our tech, Katie, asked if we were interested in finding out the sex of the baby.  Of course we are!  She said based on the angle of the genitals in a profile shot, she guesses a girl.  On second look, when I was watching the video, I saw a few shots that confirmed her guess.  I'm feeling pretty strong about this prediction.  Woo hoo!


While a healthy baby is all I really want, a girl WOULD make things simpler in the long run.  This way we can just worry about doing girlie things with "the kids" instead of having to please one girl and one boy.  It will be easier to share our hours - of which we get precious few together - if our kids would both enjoy the same types of things.  (Just my luck, we'll get that girl, but she will be a TOTAL tom boy and HATE princesses and tea parties!!!!)

On a mostly unrelated note, DAMN MY LEFT INDEX FINGER HURTS!  She stuck me in the finger to get the blood for the follow up test and it hurts worse now than when she stuck me!  And a note to self, next time don't ask which finger they want.  You're a lefty.  WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!?!?  Every pen and pencil I touched today - not to mention this keyboard - was my mortal enemy.