Baby Collier's first portrait!!

Our beautiful baby!!

Just back from the scan and it was worth every penny! We even had a consultant obstetrician doing the scan not a sonographer so it put our minds at rest when he said everything looked fine. He took some measurements and they are all within the normal ranges. We saw baby's heart, brain, bladder, stomach and legs arms and feet. At the moment it's head down with it's back lying down my left side. It's feet are nicely positioned under my right ribs which I already suspected as I've been getting kicked in them for the last few weeks!! Baby weighs about 2lb at the moment.

He explained everything on the screen which was good for Rich as he's not as good at recognising things.  We have the whole 23 min scan on DVD and lots of still pics. Some are better than others as baby kept putting it's arms up in front of it's face. At one point it looked like the baby was sticking it's thumb up which made us laugh as that's a well known Collier trait!! We've also had the sex confirmed which is good as I have a whole drawer full of receipts in case I needed to take things back!!! I can open packets and wash things now!!

I've got my next appointment on Tuesday at the anti-d clinic where I should find out the baby's blood group and whether I need the injection or not.

25 Week Check

Hi all,

I had my 25 week check up on Wednesday. All is going well. Blood pressure still slightly low but they said it would be better to be a little low at this stage. They listened to the heart beat again and I managed to video it and have attached the clip at the bottom of this entry. It looks blank but if you click on play button it does play. You may need to install quick time from apple if you don't have it as that's the format video's play in off my iphone. I hope to put more video's on so you won't be wasting space on your computers for nothing!!!!

Movements are getting much stronger now! Can feel baby rolling over and it's definitely getting into a pattern of movement during the day. Only bout 8 full working weeks left too!! I finish (subject to change!!) on 22nd September. Looking forward to it now. We're beginning to sort out the nursery too. Rich is hoping to make the loft hatch bigger to be able to get more things up there for storage space. We hope to get a proper loft ladder and board it out. The room is full of the lovely freebies we had off Elizabeth and Alistair at the mo! Sorting that out later as we're off to get the wardrobe and chest of drawers and the bigger things can go up in loft. I have a lovely freebies feeding chair and stool off my friend too.

Have hopefully linked your emails to blog so you'll get an automatic email every time I post something.

Anyway, bye for now, Rachel and Bump