11 week ultrasound

So, yeah, I couldn’t wait until the 24th for my next ultrasound.    I called yesterday to make an appointment down in the radiology department and got in today.  And of course, everything was fine.  Radiology always, always does an external abdominal ultrasound first, even when you’re only 6 weeks, which drives me crazy because they can never see anything that early and always have to a vaginal one and then I get charged for both.  But this time I was far enough along that I only had the external one.

I’m getting pretty good at reading ultrasounds.  I should, I mean this was like my 20th one.  But the external ones are hard because nothing looks right.  So I wasn’t even sure I was looking at the baby until she turned on the sound so I could hear the heartbeat, which was 168.

The baby was measuring 11w6d, 4 days ahead, but she did say that my bladder wasn’t full enough so maybe she couldn’t get a good view of what to measure.  Or maybe I’ve just got a big baby.    G. and his brothers were all 9- and 10-pounders, so it is a possibility, I suppose.  I was my mom’s biggest baby at 7 pounds.  Hopefully things go more that way.

So now I’ve got a week and a half until my week 13 ultrasound.  I can’t wait to get to that point.  I’ve held off on getting a doppler because I realized that I most likely wouldn’t be able to hear the heartbeat on it for a few weeks and I don’t think I could deal with the anxiety of not hearing anything.  I thought it was funny, though, when I suggested getting one to G., he was shocked that you could actually buy them.  He thought that they would be $600 or more, which I thought was cute.

And when I sent this ultrasound pic to G. once I got back to work after my appointment, he couldn’t tell where the baby was at all.  It is kind of hard to see, I guess.  I was kind of disappointed it wasn’t clearer but I suppose the vaginal ultrasound for week 13 will have much better detail.

Our baby at 11w2d