9 + 3
That’s officially me!
(Ooh accidental rhyme).
It’s a little late but things have been rather exhausting
for the last few weeks – on Wednesday 2 weeks ago (4th October), I
was officially discharged from the fertility clinic and am now 9 weeks and 3
days pregnant!
For most natural pregnancies, the first scan takes place at
12 weeks but as this has been through IVF, the clinic had to do a scan at 7
weeks. This is for a number of reasons, including the need to confirm that a
bun is indeed in the oven, how many buns, and whether it has implanted in the
correct place.
If all is well, you’re discharged into the main maternity
system.
So, all is well with me!
On that Wednesday, I saw my baby for the first time. It’s
really there! All tiny and implanted in the right place, with a tiny flickering
heart!
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| There it is! The black area is the amniotic sac and inside that, is the little bean-shaped, curled up baby! |
Honestly, it felt so incredible and surreal that I still
can’t quite believe it really happened.
I think the strangest moment was when the nurse called it
‘the baby’ rather than ‘the embryo’. All along, everything has been about the
eggs, then embryos – this was the first time that one of the healthcare
professionals has actually called it a baby.
Wow.
We’re having a baby!
