Thursday, July 12, 2007

18 week Ultrasound

I had my last ultrasound today so technically the last time I get to see bub before he or she is born. Our appointment was at ten to 9 at Nepean hospital, it was very difficult to get out of bed this morning I had a restless nights sleep full of weird vivid dreams and I awoke to a tension headache behind my eyes. I worked the close shift last night and found myself getting so drowsy mid way through so I bought some natural jelly beans to munch on for the rest of the shift to keep me awake, thus the weird dreams and sugar hangover this morning.
It was difficult to find a park at the hospital & we ended up having to find a spot on the street a few blocks away, not so good for a pregnant woman with a full bladder, but we made it there on time anyway and didn't have to wait very long before we were taken in for the scan. A student sonographer performed my scan initially then the qualified Sonographer took over at the end, It was a very comprehensive scan and went for much longer than my other scans which didn't bother me as I got to see bub for longer - every time I have a scan I am just amazed to see that I really do have this baby growing inside me, getting bigger and stronger every day.
Lying flat on the bed for so long left me with a sore back, the walk back to the car was a hard one as my back kept cramping up which is very painful.

We are starting the house hunt now as I just want to be able to feel secure with a new lease and be able to start organising things for when bub arrives, I just can't do that here as they won't give us any indication of what's happening with the sale of the property, all we know is we get our quiet Saturday's interrupted for an hour while the real state bring strangers through our house. There's two places we are keen to see locally and hopefully we will be able to go through them very soon, around here places go at the snap of a finger so you have to be quick and jump on anything that's suitable.