Amazing!

There was a really nice surprise on my last midwife’s appointment. She asked me to jump on the bed and I wasn’t prepared for anything else! I really thought she was going to do an internal examination or something like that, but I was wrong. I was a bit embarrassed because I was still spotting...

She said I’m going to feel your baby to see how it’s growing. She put her hands on my tummy and identified the top and bottom of my uterus. She showed it to the student midwife who was with her. She said that although I’m 15 weeks, baby feels higher than that. She didn’t use a tape measure, just her hands.

I was intrigued by this, so I’ve found out on http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/antenatalhealth/largeforstageexpert/ that ‘the number of centimetres your bump measures should be the same as the number of weeks you are pregnant, give or take 2cm. Carrying a little extra fat, or being shorter than average, may also make the measurement bigger’.

Since I was in the horizontal position still, she said ‘we are now going to hear your baby’s heartbeat’. I was so excited and scared at the same time! What if she couldn’t find it? What if something was wrong? Anyway, I was there already so I might as well go through it. She put some gel on my belly and advised me that it might take a few seconds to find the heartbeat and not to worry. She knows that those seconds can seem like minutes for every mum. 

She tried once, nothing. Then she tried again, nothing. Finally, she found it! Yay! It was amazing! It sounded just like a train at high speed! It was beating very fast. Then she let me listen to my own heartbeat which was completely different, much slower and it sounded like a boomerang being thrown. 

Then, the shocking part of all, she said ‘it’s a boy, it’s a boy!’ I asked her ‘really?’ She said that if it was a girl, the heartbeat would have sounded like a horse galloping and beating even faster. I went online to find out but according to this website http://www.in-gender.com/Gender-Prediction/Fetal-Heart-Rate.aspx , this theory is false.

My midwife said this is not 100% as sometimes she gets it wrong so who knows? I need to test this asap! Let’s get some evidence together! Please put a comment if you remember what your baby’s heartbeat sounded like and if you had a boy or girl. It’ll be fun to know!

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From poppy seed to apple seed

That’s what the baby looks like now at 5 weeks. 

 

Since I can’t tell everyone about it, I did sign up to http://www.babyandbump.com to share my experiences with other mums to be. It’s a great website but I’m getting addicted to it! I love reading in the forums what other people are going through and it’s a good place to find information about pregnancy. 

The reason I know what my baby looks like now is because you can get these personalised tickers here http://global.thebump.com/tickers/default.aspx . I find it amazing and I look forward to the beginning of a new week to find out what fruit the baby has changed into. 

I also have the fetal development countdown ticker which you can find in the same page. They are easy to use, you just need to copy and paste the code they give you and you can put it in your signature.  I would like to put it on my Facebook page but I can’t do it yet! (Hopefully, by the time you read this, you’ll see it there)

It was in this forum that someone posted about the Chinese gender predictor. You only need to put your age and the month of conception and it tells you if it’s a girl or a boy. Here is the link for that one http://content.thebump.com/sitelets/chinese-gender-chart/ . It’s a bit of fun and I know that I can’t rely on it. You should do it and check if it was accurate for your kids.

Changing the subject, I noticed that my hair is getting very greasy. It’s not bad because it means fewer curls for me, which I like. Also, my bras are getting a bit tight at the moment; my boobs are much heavier but my skin feels very soft and the whole area feels very sensitive. 

I also started being aware of my sleeping position. I remember what one of our friends said that you are meant to sleep on your left side because that's the side of your heart and it's better for blood circulation to the baby. It’s good to start training my body from now, isn't it?

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