EmmyRoo
January 15th, 2013, 11:54 AM
Hi everyone,
First up apologies for not being on here very often, I've been feeling fluey the last few days, plus my migraines made a reappearance last week and I ended up in A+E getting my medication dosage upped, DH had a sick bug and I keep getting morning sickness on and off (mild but still...) so all in all I've not had the strength to do much but lie around feeling sorry for myself! :drama: Hope everyone's ok and bumps are doing well. :bigsmile:
The reason for the thread...
I've been given my NT scan date from the hospital which will be when I'm only 11+1. They think I'll be 12+1 then but I ovulated a week late and the midwives go by last period date until your due date is corrected at the NT scan. I don't want to change the date cos I'm finding hiding this pregnancy stressful, especially as I'm getting too big for my trousers already so I do want to have the scan in 2 weeks.
But I started worrying I'll not get a good nub shot that early (will I?), which I was relying on to start the process of getting my head around another boy (it seems inevitable) before the 20 week scan. So, DH said last night that we could have a private gender scan at 16 weeks if I wanted, and the more I thought about it the more I thought it was a good idea.
I thought that we could keep it totally secret, take a day off work together while the boys are at school/childminder and have the scan, have lunch, do some consolatory baby boy shopping then have 4 weeks to come to terms with it being a boy privately, before the 20 week scan. Basically EVERYONE knows we will find out the gender at 20 weeks so the minute we come out of the appointment people will be clamouring to know, which means we're forced to paint on a smile and endure the "3 boys" comments before having any time to absorb the information ourselves. This way, we're OK with it (hopefully) long before anyone else needs to know.
So I looked up the nearest clinic and they only have saturday appointments available. :rolleyes: So my question is what do we do with the boys? On one hand it would be lovely for them to see the scan but on the other hand, what if there's something wrong with the baby? What if I react really badly to the gender and cry? What if (very likely) they get bored and disruptive? If we're paying £79 for this scan I want to be able to fully concentrate on it. But getting someone else to look after them means telling someone where we're going, which goes against the point of having the scan in secret. Argh, what do we do?
Also, has anyone got any experience of Babybond in Livingston? Is it worth it?
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
x
First up apologies for not being on here very often, I've been feeling fluey the last few days, plus my migraines made a reappearance last week and I ended up in A+E getting my medication dosage upped, DH had a sick bug and I keep getting morning sickness on and off (mild but still...) so all in all I've not had the strength to do much but lie around feeling sorry for myself! :drama: Hope everyone's ok and bumps are doing well. :bigsmile:
The reason for the thread...
I've been given my NT scan date from the hospital which will be when I'm only 11+1. They think I'll be 12+1 then but I ovulated a week late and the midwives go by last period date until your due date is corrected at the NT scan. I don't want to change the date cos I'm finding hiding this pregnancy stressful, especially as I'm getting too big for my trousers already so I do want to have the scan in 2 weeks.
But I started worrying I'll not get a good nub shot that early (will I?), which I was relying on to start the process of getting my head around another boy (it seems inevitable) before the 20 week scan. So, DH said last night that we could have a private gender scan at 16 weeks if I wanted, and the more I thought about it the more I thought it was a good idea.
I thought that we could keep it totally secret, take a day off work together while the boys are at school/childminder and have the scan, have lunch, do some consolatory baby boy shopping then have 4 weeks to come to terms with it being a boy privately, before the 20 week scan. Basically EVERYONE knows we will find out the gender at 20 weeks so the minute we come out of the appointment people will be clamouring to know, which means we're forced to paint on a smile and endure the "3 boys" comments before having any time to absorb the information ourselves. This way, we're OK with it (hopefully) long before anyone else needs to know.
So I looked up the nearest clinic and they only have saturday appointments available. :rolleyes: So my question is what do we do with the boys? On one hand it would be lovely for them to see the scan but on the other hand, what if there's something wrong with the baby? What if I react really badly to the gender and cry? What if (very likely) they get bored and disruptive? If we're paying £79 for this scan I want to be able to fully concentrate on it. But getting someone else to look after them means telling someone where we're going, which goes against the point of having the scan in secret. Argh, what do we do?
Also, has anyone got any experience of Babybond in Livingston? Is it worth it?
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
x