12 week scan

It's 3.54 on a Wednesday afternoon and we are sitting in the Anglesea Imagery centre waiting room ready to go in for the scan. Really excited but also a little nervous. It has taken so long to get to 12 weeks and now I'm still waiting.

Had the general texts from the parents stating that we HAVE to txt them straight away telling them how many babies are in Chelsea's tummy. It's just a waiting game now... 

And we are in

In the middle of the scan. Trying to get baby to behave so we can get some good measurements.  

After another person tried the scan still no movement. We have a couple of printed pictures and are back in the waiting room waiting for a disc of pictures. Scan dates place December 25th as due date.

Willies heart and heartbeat

A Leg. and a bum .. Really

Willies head, sucking thumb

Look at that HUGE Brain

Willies looking at you. Had either side of head

Chilling out, Head on Left.

Check out that head

A thumb sucker

Willie resting on back.

11 Weeks Pregnant

Time for another update and things are starting to get a little exciting. We had our second midwife visit today and that seemed to go well. Katrina gave use some more information about the pregnancy process and asked us if we were going to do the extra blood test before the scan.

This test is designed to identify early signs of possible genetic problems. We decided to get the test so that we can be prepared for our child should there be any complications.

After a couple more questions we were both feeling relieved again.  Chelsea had her blood pressure taken and all was normal.  We were given our Maternity note folder and booked in for our next meeting. Chelsea and I both made it pretty clear about how excited we are about our scan and Katrina was happy for us. She was down to earth and easy to chat with as always.

I guess the next big part of the update would be the decision not to find out if 'Little Willie' is going to be a boy or a girl. Chelsea is really wanting to know but I figure that its not really going to make a lot of difference so we should wait.  At this stage we are going to wait... How long i'll hold out... that is another story. Of course that doesn't stop us from guessing. Apparently when Karen was pregnant with Chelsea she had morning sickness but with the boys she didn't.  So that makes Chelsea feel like she is having a girl. Me, I kind of want to have a girl but it would be great at the same time to have a boy first so that he can take on the roll of older brother.  Also the fact that we both are thinking its a girl makes us think that we will have a boy. Confused, we are, but thats all part of the surprise.

Names
Now this is going to be a very long and slow decision process. Already we have had the parents offer their names and Kimberly offered hers. Sorry guys not going to happen.

So far leading the race is...

Boys                  Girls
James                 Rose / Rosie
Jack                   Madelyn
Benjamin           Grace
                          Chloe

Well sitting here has just started Chelsea rattling of some ridiculous names and admitting that one of them was an ex, needless to say it was deleted.