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first proper scan
Hi everyone, i had my appointment through for my scan this morning, its tuesday! im really nervous, i had one at about 6 weeks, i was having bad stomachs so it was just to see if everythings ok, Im now almost 14 weeks.
What can i expect, its the first scan really. They said on the letter, allow 2 hours, what could take this long? Ive met my midwife and talked and filled in forms and stuff. x
What can i expect, its the first scan really. They said on the letter, allow 2 hours, what could take this long? Ive met my midwife and talked and filled in forms and stuff. x
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Ive got my anomoly scan on Monday so looking forward to that and hoping to find out the sex.:\)
Good luck with your scan. xx
Ange
19wks 1 day
Maybe you have to do your booking in appointment with the midwife afterwards - have bloods taken and so on. I've heard some people have that - but I had my booking in appt at home
Good luck
The first blood tests are to find out your blood group, to check for dodgy diseases and...um.. I think your iron levels. Course - they managed to screw up my blood group one which was the important one!
i had my first bloods at 6weeks cause i have antibodys in my blood.
One mistake i made before my scan was to drink too much water, I was in terrible pain with bursting bladder, and sorry if TMI, had to let some out, but its hard to empty half your bladder but I managed it. When I went in for my scan I had to empty some more because all the sonographer could see was my bulging bladder.
The moral of that story is, dont drink 2 pints of water 1/2 an hour before you leave the house.