I was extraordinarily nervous all morning, I haven't been that nervous since the train journey back to college to get my degree results. We were call in early, phewee, but no-one had told me I needed a full bladder so I was sent away with a plastic cup and told to drink a pint of water! I couldn't believe we'd been so close to knowing. I'd suddenly crumpled into tears on the couch as the gel went on as it all came back from last year, but there we are, they must see it all the time.
So back in I went a pint of water later and we saw a heartbeat!!!!!
Of course I went to pieces again but in the best way - I was heaving so much the sonographer lost the picture! I'm dated to 9+2 which gives us an EDD of 23rd Dec, gawd 'elp us! We've told the children - the first thing our daughter did was make the baby a Christmas present of a shaker out of old loo roll inners and pasta 
She sang to it through my tum, kissed my tum and kept saying she hoped it would all be okay, gorgeous little thing that she is. Fortunately stepchildren are also fine with it and my stepson has offered to swap his bedroom with another room which will mean Brian (he's not the new Messiah, he's a very naughty boy...) will be next to our bedroom.Next milestone is the nuchal translucency scan in Cardiff mid-June. I'm 37 so we felt it was a good investment as it's not offered on the NHS anywhere near us. Hoping it's a formality, but my thoughts are very much with citizentwiglet.
