Sunday, September 14, 2008

Detailed Scan

20 weeks 5 days
weight ~ 61kg

woke up at about 9+am and start preparing for our trip to TMC for our detailed scan. After bathing, woke daddy up and shortly we left for breakfast at Macdonalds. had a quick breakies and saw Esther and hubby with bb Owen.

it was amazing that on a sat morning the expressway and roads are packed with cars. We reached TMC at around 11am and the carpark is packed to the brim so mummy suggest to be dropped off while daddy went to the carpark opp hopefully to find a parking lot.

daddy is pretty lucky and managed to find a parking lot shortly. We went up to level 4 and this time no registration is necessary and mummy was given a number immediately. It is a short wait of about 5 mins or so before mummy's name is called and was lead to one of the ultrasound room preparing for the sonographer to be ready. Coincidentally we met the same sonographer Elizabeth as per our Oscar scan.

She was a very patient and nice lady and showed us alot of scans about Baby. She remarked that Baby is very active and constantly playing in the womb but a little shy. We were shown Baby's penis and I joked saying now daddy will be utterly convinced that Baby is a BOY. haha. We saw Baby's nose, lips, nasal bone, head, fingers, toes, tummy, heart chambers and the blood circulation in the 4 chambers of the heart. Everything look normal, fine and good. meanwhile Baby is constantly on the move with head near the left of mummy's abdomen to above the belly button (identified with the help of Elizabeth)

Then she told us she needed some time to take some measurements to estimate the weight of Baby afterwhich she will showed us Baby again. We kept very quiet while she was taking her measurements and she joked saying we could still communicate, does not have to be so serious, hee. She then procced to key in the data (Baby stirred abit while waiting) and we were told Baby is about 376g (if mummy's memory did not failed her, short term memory at play).

She continue to show us more views of Baby and we managed to catch better views of Baby such as Baby's nose + nostrils and we even caught him moving his lips. Saw Baby's spine too and the little hands and legs again. Apparently Baby like to place his hand near his face. Another caught on screen act will be seeing for ourselves how he give a powerful kick!

Overall the results are good, all are normal and fine. How relieved are we to hear that. No problem observed with the major organs, placenta and Baby belong to the normal range. Was told that we will be given a page of scans and results sent to our gynae. Baby is so cooperative and well behaved to enable the scan done in less than 30 mins.

After that we went to Parentcraft to register for our antenatal class starting 18 Oct 7-9pm which cost us near to $200.

Will be seeing Dr Woody on thur (our 5th ROM anniversary but no celebrations intended) to review the Detailed scan.

oh..one more thing to add...the sonographer indicated that Baby is having a jolly good time playing in mummy's womb, she saw him playing with his little feet, little hand grabbing little feet, keke!

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