Cots, Names & Results

Last Thursday after our scan we ordered our baby cot and cot mattress. It was a surreal moment one in which I thought I'd never be doing for real. We got a great bargain I think, the cot - King Parrot Alice is normally $500.00 (Australian of course) and we got it for $349. Similarly we got the mattress for a great price too - it's the only mattress in Australia that is recognised by SIDS (the charity and awareness group for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).

We haven't purchased anything else, I really don't know what else apart from a pram to buy - lots of this I suspect, but it's all a bit overwhelming and we need to clear out the room that is to become the nursery before we really get anything.

We have started discussing names - we both find girls names so much easier than boys names, but we are both convinced that this baby is a he, actually I've called it him and my little boy a few times! Not that we mind either way of course but it's very very strange! We won't be finding out until bubs is born. It's funny that everyone thinks you should take their opinion on names into consideration. Dean's mother and my mum's best friend have already told us, they don't like some of our choices. Which bugs me, because they don't have to like our choices it is our baby and we will name it what we choose to. From now on when people ask I think that I'll just say "Willy Wonka for a boy and Strawberry Shortcake for a girl"










































On Monday we went to the GP and got our results from the NT scan back. For trisomy 21 the adjusted risk is 1: 8 657 and for trisomy 18 & 13 the adjusted risk is 1: 36 121. Needless to say we were quite happy with those results, although the results were not going to make a difference to keeping this baby or not, it's just nice to know that so far, so good.

We also found out at the doctors that my placenta is anterior - I know it's probably common but I feel somewhat ripped off because I've heard and read that an anterior placenta means that I won't feel the baby move until much later and I won't see body parts sticking out of my tummy and that Dean won't be able to feel the baby from the outside. I hope that is not the case because for so long I've dreamed of holding his hand over my stomach feeling our baby kicking and moving about. I know it's a minor thing to be upset about and in the long run, who really cares. But I would be lying if I said I didn't care, because I do.

I didn't show any pictures from our scan in my post last week, we only have one, but I'll show it to you now. I look at that picture all the time and I still can't beleive that, that little critter is growing inside of me right now. If I'm feeling sorry for myself on really sick days, I just look at my little baby and think how worth it every vomit is (Don't let anyone tell you that morning sickness eases at 12 weeks 15w1d and I can tell you that is a lie - but I can also tell you, it's wonderful knowing why you are sick)