80mm

so our latest visit to the doctor was a breeze. we arrived ten minutes after nine in the AM and while there were already a number of patients waiting, erm, patiently, the doc himself hadn’t arrived. suddenly he was already in the room and within an hour it was already our turn. hurrah!

he told us that the baby would be double the last time we saw it, which was 36mm. but when we looked, voila – it’s already 80mm!

magic, no? :)

the lil ‘un has been miraculously growing despite the mummy’s pathetic attempts to eat. i told this to the doc, but he assured me that i don’t have to eat a lot. he said he’d rather my husband’s wife remain “pretty” and not *here he puffs up his cheeks and mimics fat, bloated monster*. har har.

during the scan, the lil ‘un turned from side to side, as if showing off its spine and its front, then proceeded to turn upwards and touched its thighs with its hands. why, the little performer!

the scan on the left is the cross-section of the head, which is soooo ROUND hehe, and measures at 28mm. the scan on the right is, as you can see, the little exhibitionist showing its profile to its audience.

then the doc tried to look for signs of what he calls, “bird-bird”.

at first, lil ‘un was sitting cross-legged, and when we looked again, it’s uncrossed them. that’s the bum from below, and see that little white cross in the middle of the left scan? that, doc reckons, COULD be the makings of a “bird-bird”. to which i cried out, “b-b-but, that COULD be just its hand, right??” now i don’t think doctors like to be second-guessed haha, but he obliged me anyway, being the lovely, obliging man that he is. oh, the scan on the right is just an enlarged version, which i can’t make head or tail of (pardon the pun).

so it’s no more folic acid and stinky white multi-vit tablets for me anymore, since the 3 months are over. BUT, it’s replaced with calcium and obimin tablets (whatever that is, it looks pretty gruesome to swallow).

it’s always a lovely surprise to find out each time that the baby is growing well, when your mind has been worrying for four weeks about what’s going on in there coz you can’t see or feel it moving around.

next check up will consist of the gruelling blood tests. already, the first thing i have to do now after the weight check (44.1kg now!) and blood pressure, is to pee on a strip to see if there are any traces of protein or glucose.

now i’ll have to REALLY cut down on syrup and ice-cream, huh? :S