Only one!

Hooray, hooray! I have a living baby in my belly! As seen today on the small screen at the ultrasonographer's place.

Even though officially I already knew I was pregnant (urine and blood tests were positive) and I had morning sickness for 9 weeks, and have had no period for 12 weeks, and my boobs ache, and my wee smells of pregnancy hormones, and my middle is getting thick (I can't fit into my clothes properly), and I am always exhausted, and I have to get up to pee at 3 am, and get up to eat the first breakfast of the day at 4.30 am, somehow I wasn't really sure that I was still pregnant. It's just yet another a weird thing about being pregnant. I remember having the same feeling when I was pregnant with BallFiend.

So it was great to see the baby on the ultrasound today and know that there really is a baby in there.

"It" (the baby - I need to come up with a moniker) is 5cm long, has a head, two arms, two legs, fingers, toes, a brain, spine, stomach, heart and at least one ear. Too early to determine the sex yet.

To top off the good news, we now know there is just one baby, not two! I didn't think it was likely to be twins, but one never knows. Both DeepSpice and I were very relieved to get confirmation that only one bub has taken up residence in my lower abdomen.

The down side was that the whole purpose of this scan was to measure the nuchal translucency, but the "it" would not assume the required position and the ultrasonographer was unable to take the measurement. Stubborn thing, just like BallFiend at his first scan - although BallFiend did eventually move into the right position. So I am headed back there again tomorrow for another attempt and BallFiend is off to play with LittleMissZ for the morning.