time to get down to the hard stuff.... the growing massively phase with the big job at the end! LOL! Last week we ordered a pram, I got a Nappy Bag and a Peanut Shell baby sling. So things seem to be coming together well! Today I hung out with Alicia and Felicity popped in as well and we talked about my baby shower. Sometimes I forget that I will have a baby at the end of all this! It seems so unrealistic to me up to now cos I haven't had morning sickness and I am only just starting to really feel Peabody poke and jab in all ernest. But it's all very exciting too of course!This week I had the morphology ultrasound, which I was really looking forward to!
Peabody is all there, albeit a bit stubborn because he/she was facing backwards and I had to go out twice for a half hour walk around the block and a coke to try to get Peabody to move to a more ultrasound-able position! Peabody didn't move incidently so the profile shot is not very good. Also, the whole experience was a real let-down cos the crap ultrasound place I went to (sorry but it's true- I don't recommend Ultrascan at Auburn at ALL!) did the whole ultrasound with the screen facing away from me, even after I kept asking for a look! They'd say "oh in a minute" but only stopped to show me the feet and once to show the profile. And the whole time they were mute and I kept having to ask "What are you seeing up that high", "What's down there?", "How does it look?". (Ok, I may have been a tad annoying!) Then when I asked for pictures to take home they said "they'll be in with the films" which they weren't when went the next day to pick them up and when I asked they said "Oh, we don't have that machine 
anymore". WHAT THE?? Don't let me look at our baby then don't give me pictures either? They suggested putting the films up to a window and taking a digital print. Well that's what I did cos that was the only option, so here is a super cute pic of Peabody's feet and a rather awkward profile shot cos he/she was facing the wrong way. At least I know I will get to have another ultrasound at 28-32weeks because of my Diabetes, so it's not our last chance to see Peabody before they're born. And you can rest assured I wont be going back to Ultrascan!And no, we are opting for a surprise in regards to the sex, so don't ask cos we don't know (and couldn't have found out anyway cos Peabody was so camera-shy!)
:) C
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Ohhhh look at those little feet! Actually they look like big feet! Maybe like Mummy and Aunty Yvette, :)
I'm sorry that Ultrascan were SO CRAP! That is so bad - don't they know how important the ultrasound is to the parents?!!!!
Those little feet are so gorgeous with all those little toes. It's a cute profile. I'm really good at looking at ultrasound pictures. When I had my first one 38 years ago, I could see it all but other people would say "It looks like a picture of the moon to me". I had my ultrasound at Crown Street Women's hospital, the only place in Sydney that did ultrasound...it was actually sonar with instamatic camera pictures.
Love Mum
Camera shy??? Boy is Peabody in for a shock when "he/she" pops their head out!!! the WHOLE family will be waiting with cameras in hand!!!! aj
Hey Charlotte,
It's Jayne, mum of Charlotte Peterson... "LOL"...I read about your awful scan experience... you poor thing - I would have been beside myself if they had the screen before me!
BUT there is an answer - I know you said that you have another scan at 28 weeks or something - but, up here on the Gold Coast(and I am sure there are in Sydney) there is 3D scan places you can just book into, without any referral and see your baby on a big screen - like in a movie theatre!
It's not a diagnostic service... it's purely a place where you can view the baby, for your pleasure.
Anyhoo, the place on the Gold Coast is called "Prescious Previews" - just google it and have a look if you like (I went there at 24 weeks preggas) Maybe they're a chain and have something similar down your way...
And congratulations!
Meant, I would have been beside myself if they had the screen turned away from me "L" Trying to type fast at work........
The ultrasound service you experienced is absolutely unacceptable. All my ultrasounds have been explained to me enthusically and I was always able to view the whole thing-we even have video tapes of them as well as the pics. With Lulu, hubby was running late for the appointment and the sonographer even HAPPILY repeated it all over for him.I havent had the 3d but I know ppl who have and they have been absolutely blown away by away it and said it was worth the $. Gosh your first bubba, a special and unique experience, worth looking into at least.
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